Tag: UNCTAD
Seaborne shipping grows at slowest pace since 2009, future remains uncertain
Seaborne shipments passed 10 billion tons for the first time ever in 2015, up 2.1 per cent from 9.8 billion tons the year before,...
Freight transport growing fast, but needs more climate efficiency
Trade-related freight transport is expected to grow by a factor of 4.3 between 2010 and 2050, but addressing climate change requires that it become...
WTO issues new editions of Trade Profiles and World Tariff Profiles
Article first appeared on www.wto.org.
The World Trade Organization issued on 2 November new expanded editions of two of its annual statistical publications, Trade Profiles...
New EU-UNCTAD agreement to help Central Africa cut trade costs
Geneva, 14 October 2016 - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is set to support Central African countries cut the costs of their cross-border...
Tackling “non-tariff measures”, the new frontier for global trade
This article is from the unctad.org.
In 2016, the growth of world trade will be at its slowest since the financial crisis of 2008, reports the...
