Trade monitoring
Acknowledgements
The World Trade Report 2016 was prepared under the general responsibility of Xiaozhun Yi, WTO Deputy Director-General, and Robert Koopman, Director of the Economic Research and Statistics Division. This year the report was coordinated by Marc Bacchetta and Cosimo Beverelli. The authors of the report are Marc Auboin, Marc Bacchetta, Cosimo Beverelli, Barbara D’Andrea, Christophe Degain, Alexander Keck, Andreas Maurer, José-Antonio Monteiro, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini and Robert Teh (Economic Research and Statistics Division); and Antonia Carzaniga, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan Marchetti, Lee Tuthill and Ruosi Zhang (Trade in Services and Investment Division).
Standards and Trade Development Facility
Contributions to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) reached US$ 5.9 million in 2011, up from US$ 4.3 million in 2010. The STDF focused on increasing awareness, mobilizing resources, strengthening collaboration, identifying and disseminating good practice, as well as support and funding for the development and implementation of projects that promote compliance with international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements. It adopted a new medium-term strategy (2012-2016) and began developing a new tool to help developing countries prioritize SPS capacity-building needs and improve decision taking.
Concluding Remarks by the Chairperson of the Trade Policy Review Body, H.E. Mr. Manuel A.J. Teehankee of the Philippines at the Trade Policy Review of Canada, 12 and 14 June 2019
This eleventh Trade Policy Review of Canada has indeed allowed us to understand the important developments in the economic, trade and investment regime of Canada over the last four years. I would like to thank the Canadian delegation headed by Ms. Kendal Hembroff, Director General, Trade Negotiations, Global Affairs Canada, for their very active participation and engagement in this exercise. I would also like to thank our discussant, Ambassador Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the WTO, for his remarks and insightful words that have propelled these discussions, as well as the 53 delegations which took the floor during this meeting.