Trade facilitation e-learning platform trains over 1000 decision-makers in 2021

Throughout the year, UNCTAD’s online trade facilitation courses helped officials from 27 countries gain knowledge and skills needed to implement World Trade Organization mandates.

The COVID-19 pandemic did a lot to highlight for everyone the critical role trade plays in our daily lives.

Empty store shelves and late or undelivered packages led many people to wonder for the first time how goods and services reached them – and especially what stopped or delayed delivery.

And, of course, they wondered how the situation could be improved.

This is not a new topic in the trade world. The simplification, modernization and harmonization of export and import processes is called trade facilitation, and it’s the subject of global agreements, research, conferences and discussions.

“But for the first time, trade facilitation was on the minds of many people not working in the world of global commerce,” said Shamika Sirimanne, UNCTAD ¨technology and logistics director.

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