Trade monitoring
Composition, définitions et méthodologie
The data for this report comes from a variety of sources. How it is compiled and presented is explained in this chapter.
Trade policy reviews
During 2009 the Trade Policy Review Body (TPR B) reviewed 21 WTO members: Guatemala, Japan, Brazil, Fiji, the 27-member European Union, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Morocco, Guyana, Zambia, Chile, the Maldives, the members of the S outhern African Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland), Niger and Senegal (joint review), and G eorgia. The Chair’s concluding remarks for these reviews are reproduced below.
Aid for Trade
In 2012, Aid for Trade continued to mobilize resources. Commitments rose in 2010 to USD 45 billion, according to the latest figures, up from some USD 40 billion in 2009. This is 82 per cent more than the 2002-05 baseline period. The Committee on Trade and Development worked on implementing the 2012-13 work programme, with its main theme of “deepening coherence”, and prepared for the Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade due in 2013, which will centre on global value chains. Four thematic workshops were held.
Preface
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.
L’année en bref
Les travaux de l’OMC ont porté principalement sur la mise en oeuvre des décisions adoptées à la Conférence ministérielle de Bali en 2013 et sur l’avancement des questions restantes du Cycle de Doha. Après un revers en milieu d’année, les Membres de l’OMC ont réussi à remettre les négociations commerciales sur les rails en approuvant, à la fin de l’année, plusieurs décisions importantes concernant la détention de stocks publics à des fins de sécurité alimentaire, la facilitation des échanges et le programme de travail de l’après-Bali.