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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

 

Reference Documents

Partners
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.

 
 
  Interim Economic Partnership Agreements Point to the Classic Regional Trade Agreements after all: Should African countries really be worried?

 

The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements


 Upcoming Events
  ATPC Advisory Board Meeting, 24-25 September 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 

Trade Facilitation -Single Window Workshop, 15-16 October 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   
 
Feedback

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