The WTO Chairs in the African region organised a virtual International Conference on International Trade and Investment, with a special conference theme of ‘AfCFTA: Challenges and Opportunities’on the 7–8 September 2022. The organising and…
This policy brief provides a summary of key research findings of the WTO Chair in Oman at Sultan Qaboos University in order to enable policy making. Since the creation of WTO, agricultural trade was subjected to multilateral trade rules that…
This presentation looks at the current state of play in trade facilitation as well as a look at how COVID-19 has impacted on movement of goods in and out of the country during the pandemic.
This paper gives my response to a request by the Kenya Permanent Secretary of the State Department for Trade and Enterprise Development to give my opinion on the initial draft of the proposed Free Trade Area between Kenya and the United States.…
This paper gives my response to a request by the Kenya Permanent Secretary of the State Department for Trade and Enterprise Development to give my opinion on the 6th draft of the proposed Free Trade Area between Kenya and the United States.
The forty-first UNCTAD regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda organized by the University of Nairobi, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya. Covered the following topics: …
The objective of the consultative meeting was to raise awareness of key stakeholders on the expiry of the Kenya-France and Kenya-Switzerland bilateral investment treaties and the need to review the investment agreements. To identify the discuss…
The WTO TBT National Workshop on The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade discussed: The WTO and Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) The key disciplines of the WTO TBT Agreement (WTO) Notifications,…
The chair conducted a study on service trade liberalization in Oman collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The service sector in Oman contributes around 41% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and has shown a sustained annual…
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are part of numerous free or preferential trade areas and are in the process of completing or negotiating others outside the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). In this proposed study we…