Meg Jones, Women and Trade Programme Manager, ITC

Meg Jones, Women and Trade Programme Manager, ITCMinisterial Round-Table, Global Summit of Women, Istanbul7 May 2011

How Women Entrepreneurs can Take Advantage of Trade Agreements

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Which Agreements is my country party to?

Where to find information:

- Statistical data: UN Statistics Division, WTO’s World Trade Report, national customs data

-Advice on export at the national level: Trade Promotion Organisation, such as Uganda Export Promotion, Austrade.

-Big picture market analysis: ITC’s market analysis tools –

Product Map, Trade Map and Market Access Map

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ITC’s Market Access Map:www.macmap.orgMarket Access Map covers customs tariffs (import duties) and other measures applied by 190 importing countries to products from 239 countries and territories.

Most Favoured Nation (MFN) customs duties as well as multilateral, regional and bilateral preferences

Bound tariffs

Tariff-quotas: multilateral and bilateral

Anti-dumping duties

Rules of Origin and Certificates of Origin

Trade flows: import/export statistics

Import Tariffs: ad valorem, specific and ad valorem equivalents of the specific tariffs

  Analysis:

Tariff aggregation at any sectoral and regional level

Tariff reduction simulations: using various formulae

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MacMap: Track suits from Kenya to USA

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Qualifies under MFN and AGOA

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Eligibility Criteria Defined

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Apparel Eligibility under Rules of Origin, AGOA

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Global Platform for Action on Sourcing from Women Vendors

Create shared value by sourcing from women vendors that offer competitive products and services;

Promote the benefits of sourcing from women vendors, educating multinational corporations on the business case and return on investment;

Share knowledge on policies and practices to increase sourcing from women vendors;

Support, initiate or improve efforts to integrate women vendors into value chains; and

Report to the Platform for Action Steering Committee on activities and impact via an annual survey

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For further information:

Meg Jones

Women and Trade Programme Manager

ITC

Palais des Nations

1211 Geneva

Switzerland

+41 22 730 0166

[email protected]