Phnom Penh (FN), Mar. 1 – Both the Trade Facilitation Roadmap of Cambodia’s National Committee for Trade Facilitation (NCTF) and the latest notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in February highlight the need for technical assistance for further progressing the trade facilitation reforms. The good news is that the interest of various development partners (DPs) in trade facilitation support in Cambodia is high. Ensuring good collaboration and harmonisation among the existing and emerging technical assistance programmes in this sector is thus important to further amplify the gains from their support in trade facilitation reforms in the country.

Cambodia has made remarkable improvements in making cross-border trade easier, quicker, and more cost-effective. This is particularly true in terms of using modern information and communication technologies (ICT) to simplify and automate cross-border trade procedures, i.e., the use of an automated customs processing system called ASYCUDA and Cambodia’s National Single Window (CNSW).

Read AVI Commentary: "Do Collaboration and Harmonisation among Different Technical Assistance Programmes in Trade Facilitation Reforms Matter?” below.
=FRESH NEWS