The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, a collaboration of international organisations, governments and businesses that provides support to governments in developing and least developed countries for implementing the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement, developed a methodology for measurement of transport and logistics cost in cross-border trade.

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The South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) as part of a comprehensive programme aimed at addressing the Non-Tariff Barriers to trade, has recently launched the Export Barriers Monitoring Mechanism (EBMM), an initiative for monitoring all those barriers to export that reduce competitiveness of South African businesses.

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