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  Pillars of ATPC
 

1: Providing Fully Integrated Trade Capacity Building for RECs

 

2: Providing Comprehensive Capacity Building for Trade Constituencies

 

3: Mainstreaming Cross-Cutting Items

 
  ATPC Services
 

:: Set up Trade Policy Units in RECs

  :: Undertake Research
  :: Promote Training on Trade Issues
  :: Undertake Information Dissemination
  :: Provide Advisory Services and Technical Cooperation
  :: Facilitate Consensus Building
  :: Create Partnerships for Trade
 

:: Mainstream HIV/ AIDS, Gender and Environment into ATPC Activities

 

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Important Addresses
 
  Did you know that?
 

On average, 95% of the members of a regional economic community in Africa belong to another community.
Source: Aria II, ECA.

 
 
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  An Assessment of the Impact of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on the SADC Regional Integration Process
  Assessing the Impact of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Spread of HIV and vice versa in the SADC Region
  Impact of Trade Facilitation Mechanisms on Export Competitiveness in Africa
 

Gender dimensions of cross-border trade in the East African Community: Kenya/Uganda and Rwanda/Burundi borders
Financement de l’intégration régionale
Negotiations on Agriculture
The Multilateral Negotiations on Non-Agricultural Market Access
  Events
 

Africa Trade Forum 2011
22-24 November 2011
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 
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Expert Group Meeting on Enhancing Africa’s Participation in the WTO Negotiation Process

7-8 September 2009, Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

 
 
ECA Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa and ICGLR Joint Press Communiqué 
Press Release No. 41/2009
 

Draft Programme

Aide-Memoire

List of Participants
 
Papers

Technical Paper on Rules Negotiations

Regional Trade Agreements

African Group Paper on Fisheries Subsidies

The Draft GATS Domestic Regulation Disciplines – Potential Conflicts With Developing Country Regulations
Enhancing Africa’s Participation in the WTO Negotiation Process: Towards a Critical Appraisal of the Potential Development Benefits of the Doha Development Agenda

The Special Safeguard Mechanism: Some Issues for Consideration by Developing Countries

WTO Negotiations on Trade Facilitation

The Potential Cost of a Failed Doha  Round

Note on Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) by Dan Owoko, Nama Focal Point for the African Group in the WTO, Geneva

Les négociations commerciales multilatérales à l’OMC: le cas du coton.

 
Presentations
The Potential Cost of a Failed Doha  Round
Antoine Bouet, IFPRI – CATT/UPPA and David Laborde Debucquet, IFPRI
Doha Round and Africa’s Expectations: Where are we?
Stephen Karingi, UNECA
Synthesis of Doha Round Implications: Lessons From
Trade-Development-Poverty Linkages Study

Pradeep S Mehta, CUTS International
Trade Liberalization and Poverty in Brazil
Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho, University of São Paulo
Kenya and the Doha Round: The Economic  and Development Impact
Eduardo Zepeda, UNDP
Brazil in the Global Economy: Measuring the Gains from Trade Eduardo Zepeda, UNDP

Will the Doha Round of International Trade Negotiations bring Growth and Development to Africa?
Stephen Karingi, UNECA

Improving Services Provision in Africa: Trade and Regulation of Business Services
World Bank
The Doha Development Agenda

Trade in Goods: Schedules
Nelson Ndirangu, ACP Trade Programme

L’Aide  Pour le Commerce (APC)
Hermanne Marc ARABA, Mission Permanente du Bénin à Genève

AD Agreement
Kofi Amenyah, Permanent Mission of Ghana in Geneva

Regional Trade Agreements
Kofi Amenyah, Permanent Mission of Ghana in Geneva

The Way Froward:  Work Plans prepared by Ag and NAMA Chairs, the required preparatory work and by whom
Mohamed Abulkheir, Permanent Mission of Egypt to the WTO in Geneva