Awaza Programme of Action - Overview

PA2: Trade & Regional Integration

Trade, trade facilitation and regional integration

2: Trade, trade facilitation and regional integration

  • Target 2.01.01: Support landlocked developing countries to significantly increase participation in world trade with a view to at least doubling their global merchandise exports by 2034.

  • Target 2.01.02: Support landlocked developing countries to substantially diversify trade by increasing the value added and manufactured component of their exports and expanding their exports of services and e-commerce.

  • Target 2.01.03: Support landlocked developing countries to substantially increase exports of services with a view to at least doubling their exports of trade in services by 2034.

  • Target 2.01.04: Address non‑tariff measures and reduce or eliminate arbitrary or unjustified non‑tariff barriers, that is, those that are not in conformity with the rules of the World Trade Organization.

  • Target 2.01.05: Be transparent in taking sanitary and phytosanitary measures on goods in transit in accordance with World Trade Organization rules.

  • Target 2.01.06: Offer appropriate technical assistance and capacity-building to landlocked developing countries to complete the process of their accession to the World Trade Organization, fulfil their commitments and integrate into the multilateral trading system.

  • Target 2.01.07: Take note of landlocked developing countries’ ambition to establish a work programme under the World Trade Organization.

  • Target 2.02.01: Encourage simplification and streamlining of documentation and border crossing procedures with the aim of substantially reducing port and border delays and costs.

  • Target 2.02.02: Make tangible contributions to overcoming the burden of landlockedness to international trade by improving transit facilities and their efficiency with the aim of reducing the time taken and the cost of clearing goods between and through transit countries.

  • Target 2.02.03: Support the active participation of landlocked developing countries in standards-setting organizations involved in trade facilitation.

  • Target 2.02.04: Promote acceleration of full and effective implementation of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Facilitation in all landlocked developing countries and transit countries.

  • Target 2.02.05: Support landlocked and transit developing countries in the area of trade facilitation, in accordance with the Agreement on Trade Facilitation.

  • Target 2.02.06: Substantially increase the implementation rate of the measures under the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation.

  • Target 2.03.01: Increase regional and subregional trade with a view to seizing regional integration as a tool for addressing the challenges of being landlocked and unlocking trade potentials of landlocked developing countries.

  • Target 2.03.02: Substantially increase the share of landlocked developing countries in intraregional trade.

  • Target 2.03.03: Create provisions on transit trade within regional trade agreements.

  • Target 2.03.04: Support the exchange of best practices and knowledge between regional and subregional trade agreements with the participation of landlocked developing countries, with a view to deepening regional integration processes and accelerating integration of landlocked developing countries into the global economy.

Goals

  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
    Weak  
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
    Weak  
  • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
    Weak  
  • Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
    Weak  
  • Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
    Weak  
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
    Weak  
  • Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
    Weak  
  • Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
    Strong  
  • Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
    Strong  

Targets

  • Target 2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.
    Weak   Economic  
  • Target 2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility.
    Weak   Economic  
  • Target 8.a: Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries.
    Strong  
  • Target 10.6: Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions.
    Strong   Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 10.a: Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   International  
  • Target 17.10: Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Economic   International  
  • Target 17.11: Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Weak   Weak   Economic   International  

Indicators

  • No alignments!

Goals

  • Goal 1.1: Enhance inclusive, equitable and sustainable economic growth.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 1.2: Increase Economic Resilience.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 7.1: Strengthen Africa's position and competitiveness in global affairs.
    Strong   Aspiration 7.   Moonshot 7: Af  

Targets

  • Target 1.1.2: Diversification of intra-African exports improved with a reduction in dependence on commodity exports as a share of total exports.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Weak  
  • Target 1.1.3: Increase intra-Africa trade to 30% of total African trade.
    Strong   Strong   Weak  
  • Target 1.2.1: Achieve annual GDP growth of at least 6% over the period.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 1.2.2: Maintain growth in manufacturing value addition that exceeds GDP growth.
    Strong  
  • Target 1.2.4: Increase Africa’s share in global manufactured value-addition to 10%.
    Strong  
  • Target 1.2.5: Improve the diversification index to at least 0.8.
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 1.2.6: Increase intra-Africa trade to at least 30%..
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Weak  
  • Target 1.2.7: Increase the contribution of digital services to 7% of GDP.
    Weak  
  • Target 1.2.10: Full operationalization of the continental framework on the transformation of Africa economies..
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 2.1.1: Domesticate and operationalise all protocols and treaties leading to the establishment of a United Africa in all 55 AU Member States.
    Strong  
  • Target 7.1.4: The number of Africans in leadership positions in international organisations is increased.
    Weak   Weak  

Indicators

  • No alignments!

Goals

  • Goal 1: Investing in people in least developed countries: eradicating poverty and building capacity to leave no one behind.
    Weak   Universal soci   Achieving univ   Achieving gend   Population and   Investing in y   Water, sanitat   Urbanization a   Migration and   Good and effec   Building and s  
  • Goal 2: Leveraging the power of science, technology, and innovation to fight against multidimensional vulnerabilities and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
    Weak   Access to mode   Science, techn   Promoting priv  
  • Goal 3: Supporting structural transformation as a driver of prosperity.
    Strong   Productive cap   Infrastructure   Connecting lea   Support for pr  
  • Goal 4: Enhancing international trade of least developed countries and regional integration.
    Strong   Duty-free and   Preferential r   Least develope   Technical assi   Trade-Related   Agriculture an   World Trade Or   E-commerce   Special and di   Regional integ  

Targets

  • Target 1.09.02: Provide continued support for the strengthened and effective voice and participation of least developed countries in relevant international forums..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 2.01.06: Move away from low value-added natural resources and low-technology products to higher value-added manufactures and higher-technology products..
    Strong  
  • Target 3.01.02: Substantially increase economic and export diversification with a view to reaching the level of other developing countries in export concentration by 2030..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 3.02.01: Significantly expand, upgrade and maintain and gain access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport infrastructure and national and cross-boundary connectivity and ensure that all forms of transport infrastructure are maintained through closing the missing links and strengthening institutional capacities to manage transport services..
    Strong  
  • Target 3.04.01: Significantly increase the value added and manufactured component of the exports of least developed countries, with the objective of integrating least developed countries into the regional and global value chains..
    Strong  
  • Target 4.01.01: Facilitate market access for products of least developed countries, including by developing simple and transparent rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries, in accordance with the guidelines adopted by WTO members at the Ministerial Conference held in Bali in 2013..
    Weak  
  • Target 4.01.02: Significantly increase the exports of least developed countries, in particular with a view to doubling their share of global exports by 2031..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 4.02.01: Ensure that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple and contribute to facilitating market access..
    Weak  
  • Target 4.03.01: Increase least developed countries’ exports of services by fully implementing the WTO ministerial decision on the operationalization of the waiver concerning preferential treatment to services and service suppliers of the least developed countries and encourage members that have not yet notified their preferences under the least developed countries services waiver, to also do the same..
    Strong  
  • Target 4.04.02: Ensure accession to WTO of all least developed countries committed to do so by the end of the current decade..
    Weak   Weak  
  • Target 4.07.01: Fully implement the Agreement on Trade Facilitation and provide assistance in and support for capacity-building of least developed countries in this regard, in accordance with development cooperation effectiveness principles..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  

Indicators

  • No alignments!