Trade monitoring

Les données de ce rapport proviennent de sources diverses. Ce chapitre contient des explications sur la compilation et la présentation de ces données.

This is Jamaica’s fourth Trade Policy Review. During the review period 2011-17, Jamaica has made major strides in restoring macroeconomic stability, pursuing prudent fiscal policy, reducing public debt and undertaking significant changes to its tax policy. Moreover, the financial system has become more resilient to shocks, inflation is at historic lows, the current account deficit has more than halved, net international reserves have doubled and business confidence is high. Nonetheless, economic growth remains elusive with an average real GDP growth rate below 1% since 2011. As a result, one fifth of the population still lives below the poverty line.

Nul doute que l’année 2015 aura été l’une des années les plus mémorables de l’histoire de l’OMC. Non seulement nous avons célébré les 20 ans de l’Organisation, mais aussi l’année s’est achevée sur le succès de notre dixième Conférence ministérielle, à Nairobi, où plusieurs accords historiques ont été conclus.

Trade and Investment play an important role in EI salvador’s economy reflecting in part the openness of itstrade and investment regime. The trade policy regime of EI salvador has been further liberalized since EI salvador’s previous Trade Policy Review in 2003. Progress has been made in modernizing customs, elimingating unnecessary licensing requirements, enhancing the transparency of technical regulations and SPS measures, and strengthening the institutional framework on competition policy and government procurement. As part of its liberalization efforts, EI Salvador has entered as well into three new preferential trade agreements(with Chinese Taipei, Panama, and the United States), and continued to assign high priority to deepening central american intergration. EI Salvador has also maintained its long-standing strategy of granting exporters refunds as well as fiscal privileges through free-trade zones (FTZs), which result in subsidies and tex breaks that distort economic incentives.