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…

The Chair is a member of the UNDP-SIDA working group on trade and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Arab region. The working group mission is to develop trade policy proposals within the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) that will…

For the Fourth consecutive time and in collaboration with WTO, SQU held the Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) for the Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) starting on October 8 to November 30, 2017 and running for 8 weeks.

The TBT/SPS national consultative committee meeting was held at the Kenya Bureau of Standards meeting on 5th September 2017. The meeting discussed the preparations for the WTO TBT meeting in Geneva in November 2017 and Kenya’s position on the…

The National SPS Committee Meeting was held on 19th June 2018 in Telposta Towers, Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting discussed the documents circulated by the WTO Secretariat in Geneva regarding the SPS Committee Meeting in Geneva Scheduled for July…

2nd Kenya Trade Week at the Kenya International Convention Centre on the 31st July 2018. The meeting discussed Kenya’s exports initiatives to diversify the export products, markets. There were also discussions on trade development incentive…

The 2nd Inter-ministerial Committee Meeting on the Preparations for the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference was held on 5th October 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The following were discussed during the Meeting on the Preparations for the…

The 3rd Inter-ministerial Committee Meeting on the Preparations for the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference was held on 13th October 2017 at KICC at Foreign Service. The following were discussed on the Preparations for the 11th WTO Ministerial…

World Standards Celebrations took place in Nairobi on 16th October 2018. The celebrations started with Presentations on Emerging technologies in digital world in relation to the BIG FOUR and Application of Smart technologies in Manufacturing in…