Enhancing Africa’s trade potential: The key role of trade and transport facilitation legal instruments

Background

Although there is substantial legal frameworks and conventions on trade facilitation and export competiveness of Landlocked Developing Countries – LLDCs, their ratification and effective implementation remain wanting.  Most instruments including the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets, the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and the Revised Kyoto Customs Convention are either not ratified or not being implemented by several member States.

Studies by OHRLLS and ECA recommend support to African Member States to raise their awareness and understanding of the process, benefits and implications of above regional and international protocols on facilitation of transport and trade for landlocked developing countries.

This high level event seeks to discuss and enhance the knowledge of participants from African Member States on the need to ratify and implement these legal instruments among others.

Event is open to all delegates. Date: 3rd April 2016 Time: 15h00 – 17h00, Venue CC11

For further information please contact: Gladys Mutangadura, Email: mutangadura@un.org , Soteri Gatera, Email: GSoteri@uneca.org