Tunisia
Trade Policy Review: Tunisia 2016
“Trade Policy Reviews" analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat a report by the government and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The opening section - "key trade facts" - provides a visual overview of the WTO member's major exports/imports main export destinations origins for its imports and other key data. This edition looks into the trade practices of Tunisia.
Is Tunisian Trade Policy Pro-poor?
Trade liberalization policies affect the domestic economy through their impact on prices of goods and services. Consequently these policies also can affect average productivity and lead to industrial restructuring. The main goal of this research is to estimate the distributional effects of trade policy at the micro level using household survey data and to determine whether trade liberalization affected different groups of poor people differently. To our knowledge this question has not yet been addressed for Tunisia.
Introduction
The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) was first established on a trial basis by the GATT contracting parties in April 1989. The Mechanism became a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization under the Marrakesh Agreement which established the WTO in January 1995.
Concluding remarks by the Chairperson of the Trade Policy Review Body, Ms Irene Young of Hong Kong at the Trade Policy Review of Tunisia, 13 And 15 July 2016
This third Trade Policy Review of Tunisia has allowed us to better understand the exceptional context in which its trade and investment policies and practices have unfolded since its last Review in 2005. We owe this to the informative documentation prepared for the meeting the active participation of the Tunisian delegation led by Mr. Mohsen Hassan Minister of Trade and the constructive comments of the discussant Ambassador Kalayanamit from Thailand and of Members who have taken the floor.