By ratifying the Final Act establishing the World Trade Organization in January 1995, Côte d’Ivoire became one of the WTO’s original Members. The country went on to submit its first trade policy review in that same year, since then it has undertaken various institutional, economic, financial and administrative reforms with a view to its progressive and positive integration into world trade. However, since 1999, it has experienced a cycle of socio-political instability, which has had the effect of slowing down its social and economic development.