Trade Facilitation Handbook: Part I

Part I of this Handbook is intended to guide users in creating the institutional structure for processing trade facilitation measures.

It focuses on one platform - the trade facilitation body - in the form of an interdisciplinary committee where private sector managers, public sector administrators and policymakers can work together towards the effective implementation of trade facilitation measures.

Approaches to the setting up of a trade facilitation body by different developing countries are reviewed on the basis of case studies carried out by UNCTAD and relevant work by other institutions.

From the review, key lessons are drawn for developing countries intent on establishing and operating trade facilitation committees.