The government has launched a coordinated initiative to assess its technical assistance and capacity-building needs and secure international technical assistance for trade reforms in a major push to integrate into global supply chains and enhance trade competitiveness, officials said.
As part of the initiative, the WTO Wing of the commerce ministry has called an inter-ministerial meeting for July 6 to finalise Bangladesh's data compilation for the World Trade Organization's (WTO) annual trade facilitation survey, according to an official notice.
The high-level meeting, to be chaired by the additional secretary in charge of the WTO Wing, will focus on completing the TFA Access to TACB-TFAF Survey 2026, an annual assessment conducted by the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility (TFAF).
The initiative evaluates member states to determine exactly what technical assistance and capacity-building resources they require to fulfil international trade mandates, an official of the commerce ministry said.
The evaluation framework requires all participating government agencies to provide information on the status of TFA implementation, areas requiring international technical assistance, and domestic capacity-building programmes with details of donor agencies and implementing organisations, he added.
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