Trade monitoring
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General Council
In 2014, the General Council oversaw the implementation of decisions taken at the Bali Ministerial Conference in December 2013. Work reached an impasse in July over disagreements about the timing of implementation of two of the decisions. However, the deadlock was broken in November when the General Council adopted the decisions on trade facilitation, public stockholding for food security purposes, and post-Bali work. In December, the General Council approved the accession package of Seychelles and decided that the Tenth Ministerial Conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15 to 18 December 2015.
Composition of geographical and economic groupings
This chapter details the methodology and sources for the statistics used in International Trade Statistics 2008.
Cooperación técnica y formación
En 2015, el Instituto de Formación y Cooperación Técnica (IFCT) de la OMC llevó a cabo 321 actividades de asistencia técnica destinadas a ayudar a los funcionarios públicos a comprender mejor las normas de la OMC y el sistema multilateral de comercio. El número de participantes en estas actividades de formación fue de unos 14.900, frente a 14.700 en 2014. Los países menos adelantados (PMA) se beneficiaron del 52% de las actividades de asistencia técnica. Casi la mitad de los participantes accedió a la formación por medio de los recursos de aprendizaje en línea de la plataforma electrónica de la OMC.
Statistics activities
The WTO’s Integrated Trade Intelligence Portal (I-TIP) was launched at the start of 2013, providing data on trade in goods as well as information on regional trade agreements and WTO accession commitments. It was later expanded, in a joint project with the World Bank, to include trade in services. The WTO deepened international cooperation in the area of trade statistics, working with organizations such as UNCTAD and ITC. The OECD and the WTO launched a joint database on trade in value added terms.