Trade policy formulation and implementation
Chile: Enabling policymakers to evaluate new trade agreements
Sustainable Development Goals
<p>To provide with a sound evidence base for Chile’s future trade relationships, the project envisages to bring together databases and expertise in ITC and the Ministry. Results will help inform the public about potential outcomes of its trade agreements.</p>
Trade competitiveness: Piloting artificial intelligence to automate the analysis of trade-related policies and projects
Sustainable Development Goals
<p>This project addresses the problem of extracting valuable insights from vast amounts of trade-related text data using artificial intelligence. In a world where text data is growing exponentially, being able to automatically mine it for relevant insights can provide a competitive edge to the organisation.</p>
Vietnam: Trade Policy and Promotion Project
Vietnam has experienced impressive economic and social growth and development and taken steps to attract private investment and improve its economic governance, including creating Free Trade Agreements to boost opportunities for small and medium businesses.
According to ITC estimates, Vietnam’s untapped export potential equals $138.4 billion. The largest gaps are in electronic equipment ($46.3 bn), apparel ($17.0 bn), and footwear ($11.3 bn).
Challenges to sustainable growth remain however, and ITC is working to reinforce Vietnam’s national export strategy, its business support organizations and its public-private dialogue. We hope to strengthen the domestic private sector, upgrade production, help integrate environmental sustainability and encourage inclusiveness.
National Export Strategy
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Public Private Dialogue
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Capacity Building
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Sustainable Development Goals
<p>The Swiss Trade Policy and Promotion Project is a 4-year trade-related technical assistance project in Vietnam which aims to improve trade performance and international competitiveness of MSMEs through enhanced favorable framework condition for trade, public-private dialogue mechanisms, and a strengthened eco-system for dynamic trade promotion. Ultimately, it will contribute to sustainable and inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in the country. Funded by SECO, ITC will facilitate the update of the national export strategy and the development of a Public-Private Dialogue platform for export development. Vietrade has been mandated to establish a Grants Fund for Business Support Organizations (BSOs) to support exporting SMEs.</p>
Lesotho: National Trade Policy Implementation Programme and formulation of National Export Strategy Roadmap
Sustainable Development Goals
<p>The project will provide the Ministry of Trade and Industry with advisory services and undertake quality control measures on the consolidated National Trade Policy to ensure alignment with the ITC approach of “Trade Policy for Export Success”; it will develop an implementation program for the National trade policy and formulate the National Export Strategy development roadmap.</p><p><br>The National Trade Policy will be used as a key reference to guide the country`s efforts in expanding productive capabilities in strategic export potential sectors. The strategy will therefore attempt to determine where Lesotho is as an exporting country and where it needs to be in order to achieve the socio-economic goals set out in the Vision 2020.</p>