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WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AND TRADE FACILITATION
- The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is well advanced in a set of negotiations under the heading of “Trade Facilitation”.
Trade facilitation in its accepted definition of “simplification and harmonisation of international trade procedures and associated information flows” deals primarily with the ways in which various participants, commercial, official and financial communicate, interact and co-operate with each other in order to implement the international transaction.
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WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL TRADE FACILITATION?
- International trade facilitation is now a familiar term in international economic and political debate. For many years its three main manifestations have been:
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AIR CARGO AND THE THIRD WORLD
- It is almost a century since Orville Wright flew. Since that first fight, in 1903, air transport has become an indispensable trade service.
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Customs and Air Cargo – Cooperation or Constraint
- Customs enter at least twice into each international air movement, inserting a set of obligatory, authoritative official controls into the commercial management of aircraft and cargo.
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FACILITATION AND SECURITY IN AIR TRANSPORT
- There is no other sector of the global economy so precariously poised on the swaying regulatory tightrope between facilitation and security as air transport.
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It’s Time to Set Air Cargo Free
- There are widely differing views within the airline industry and among the world’s political leaders concerning changes that would liberalize air cargo traffic rights.
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TIACA’s Market Liberalization Position Endorsed at ICAO Conference
- A strong global consensus on a framework for the economic liberalization of the air transport industry emerged out of the Worldwide Air Transport Conference: "Challenges and Opportunities of Liberalization,” held by the International Civil Aviation Organization at its Montreal Headquarters from March 24 to 28.
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