The COVID-19 pandemic has hit hard all economies across the globe. Some of the economies most affected have been those heavily dependent on cross-border travel and tourism services…
This Regional Consultation is organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This webinar will focus on a number of specific issues policymakers need to address in responding to the challenges and opportunities offered by digital trade. The basis for the…
The purpose of the workshop is to understand the scope of sustainable development provisions in regional trade agreements, which are increasingly included in regional trade…
Trade finance, which supports about 80-90% of global trade, faced a severe shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk aversion by banks increased while firms reduced borrowings…
Uzbekistan first made a request for a membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 8 December 1994 and the Working Party for its accession was established on 21 December 1994…
COVID-19 has brought significant disruption to international trade and has revealed countries’ reliance on ad-hoc unilateral actions in response to crisis. Both trade restrictive…
ESCAP, in cooperation with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and with the support of the WCO-ESCAP Joint Task Force on Cross-border Electronic Data Exchange, organizes a workshop…
Background The ability to gain and to benefit from market access opportunities depends increasingly on compliance with non-tariff measures (NTMs) – all policy interventions other…
The meeting, participated by the members of the UNNExT Advisory Group on Trade Process Analysis as well as other experts with expertise in business process analysis and…
Co-Organized by United Nations ESCAP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry As of 1 January 2021, trade preference to…
1 November – 3 December 2021 The 5-week online course intends to raise awareness of stakeholders from public and private sectors on trade facilitation, build their in-depth capacity…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia-Pacific region has increased the implementation of digital trade facilitation measures and sought to improve efficiency of cross-…
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss accelerating climate-smart trade and investment for sustainable development based on the new Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2021…
International Agricultural trade is one of a key ingredient to economic growth, employment and poverty reduction. Being able to analyses agricultural trade data sets can help…
The COVID-19 pandemic made all stakeholders revisit the strengths and weaknesses of Global Value Chains (GVCs), and disruptions were felt throughout, affecting the trade of…
Short description: How to develop tailored crisis-mitigation provisions in trade agreements to build resilience and better preparedness for future crises? The Session titled “…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit hard all economies across the globe. Some of the economies most affected have been those heavily dependent on cross-border travel and tourism services…
This Regional Consultation was organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This webinar will focus on a number of specific issues policymakers need to address in responding to the challenges and opportunities offered by digital trade. The basis for the…
A new dawn is upon the world of cross border trade digitization. A stable and reliable foundation is forming with momentum on UNCITRAL MLETR adoption, uptake in LEI utilization, an…
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed countries’ reliance on ad-hoc unilateral measures in response to crisis. To combat the pandemic, countries took measures such as…
Advancing digital and sustainable trade facilitation for building back better 14 July 2021 | 15:00-16:30 Bangkok time (GMT +7) The United Nations Regional Commissions (UNRCs) have…
15:00-16:40 (GMT+7) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia-Pacific region has increased the implementation of digital trade facilitation measures and sought to improve…
09:00-10:30 (GMT+7), Bangkok time RIVA Value Chain Analyzer is an online tool for policy makers, analysts and researchers to better understand their economy’s integration in global…
Services value-added now accounts for almost half of all world trade. But costs of trading services are twice as high as trade costs for goods. This is partly due to…
The presentation will discuss the impact of the US-China trade war on technology and global value chains. It will discuss the tit-for-tat regulations that are technology-…
This talk will draw from the recent OECD Trade Policy Paper No. 246 Trade and Gender: A Framework of Analysis that was co-authored by Jane Korinek, Evdokia Moïsé and Jakob…
This talk will be based on the recent CISIfo Working Paper No 7825 “From Theory to Policy with Gravitas: A Solution to the Mystery of the Excess Trade Balances” by Gabriel…
Introduction Countries have increasingly moved from negotiating narrow-scope preferential trade agreements to more comprehensive economic partnership agreements (CEPAs). Such…
Regional integration is seen as a key priority by many developing countries towards achieving economic diversification, industrialization and structural transformation that are…
This online course is designed to introduce participants to the basic techniques involved in machine learning and text mining, with applications focusing on international trade…
The workshop will provide an in-depth introduction on using ESCAP’s online Trade Intelligence and Negotiation Advisor (TINA – available at https://tina.trade) for help in trade…
In this talk, Prof. Deardorff will look at the roles that international trade played, first in spreading the virus around the world, then in getting the tools for dealing with the…
The webinar features a panel discussion, comprising experts with relevant experience in establishing and/or operating trade information portals, and discusses practical measures for…
Abstract: The talk is based on the paper co-authored with Rishi R. Sharma of Colgate University. The paper conducts analysis of a free trade agreement within a simple model of…
A part of ESCAP-OECD Initiative on Digital Trade Regulatory Analysis, the OECD Digital STRI TI captures cross-cutting impediments that affect all types of services traded digitally…
Course description The goal of the workshop is to serve as a practical guide for trade policy analysis with the structural gravity model, i.e., the workhorse model in international…
A part of ESCAP-OECD Initiative on Digital Trade Regulatory Analysis, the ESCAP RDTII identifies and quantifies regulatory restrictiveness in comprehensive policy areas that affect…