Explore the latest blogs, stories, publications, podcasts, and videos highlighting the Trade Facilitation Support Program's work around the world. These resources showcase lessons learned, country experiences, and expert perspectives on advancing trade facilitation and driving development impact.
Blogs
- Meeting sanitary and phytosanitary measures to improve trade efficiency in Nepal
- How a new trade information portal is empowering Timor-Leste’s entrepreneurs
- Developing countries need more support to navigate growing turbulence in global trade
- How a digital platform for ports speeds delivery of goods to your local shopping mall
- Fiji is digitalizing trade processes, helping firms expand in new markets and hire more workers
- Toppling the barriers to Indian women’s participation in trade
- Timor-Leste moves toward WTO membership with new biosecurity legislation
- Tajikistan: Empowering women in cross-border trade
- Timor-Leste sets its sights on regional and global trade integration
- Digital certification makes cocoa traders in Côte d'Ivoire more competitive
- Helping Lao businesses trade — the Authorized Economic Operator Program
- Public-private collaboration facilitates the import of vaccines in Tonga
- Lao PDR Trade Portal: Ten years old and growing strong
- Time release studies: Making trade faster and more predictable in Europe and Central Asia
- Helping women entrepreneurs break into global markets by overcoming challenges at the border
- Trade facilitation: Critical to COVID-19 recovery
- Managing organizational performance in Customs during a crisis period
- Ending the invisibility of women traders
- ePhyto: Promoting safe and efficient trade
- Tracking the performance of trade facilitation reforms: What difference does a day make?
- What’s it like for women to trade across borders?
- Leave your hammocks at home: How a customs union between Guatemala and Honduras cut trade times from 10 hours to 15 minutes
- Bringing Sri Lanka's traders one step closer to the global market
- Can Blockchain Revolutionize Trade?
- Customs Union between Guatemala and Honduras, from 10 hours to 15 minutes!
- Lowering Trade Costs through Transparency: the Importance of Trade Information Portals
- WTO TFA implementation: Learning from early results
- Five actions that matter to the future of Aid for Trade
- Coordination, Collaboration and Connectivity for Better Border Management
- Trade facilitation reform in Sri Lanka can drive a change in culture
- Now that the Trade Facilitation Agreement has entered into force...
- Supporting the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
Feature Stories
- Zambia: Cultivating change through trade facilitation
- Tonga trade — Building back stronger from emergencies and preparing for the future
- Bananas and Blight – An Illustration In The Complexity of Global Trade
- Transforming Economic Opportunities for Women Through Trade
- How Innovation is Revolutionizing Global Trade
- Supporting Safe Trade to Improve Nepal's Export Position
- New Clearance Procedures Save Time at North Macedonia Border
- Digital Trade Can Help North Macedonia Build Back Better Post-COVID-19
- Montenegro Cuts Import Clearance Time: 8 Hours to 30 Minutes
- Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders in the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste
- Keeping Business Flowing in Serbia Amid COVID-19
- In Ethiopia, Electronic Single Window Cuts Costs and Time to Trade
- Simplifying Trade Energizes Businesses in Kosovo
- Sierra Leone: Trade facilitation improvements are starting to bear fruit
- Jamaica: Pioneering trade facilitation improvements in the Caribbean
- Getting the balance right: Minimizing food safety risks and facilitating trade in North Macedonia
- A New Way of Managing Risk for Customs in Montenegro: 80% Reduction in the Inspection of Excise Goods
Publications
- TFSP: 10 Year Summary: Animated Brochure | Factsheet
- TFSP Annual Reports: FY24 | FY23 | FY22 | FY21 | FY20 | FY19 | FY18
- Unlocking Trade for Women: Trade Facilitation and Gender Surveys
- Pacific Regional Trade Facilitation Strategy and Roadmap
- Guideline on risk management systems for food safety organizations
- Port Community Systems: Lessons From Global Experience
- Pacific Regional Trade Facilitation Strategy and Roadmap
- Unlocking Trade for Women: Trade Facilitation and Gender Surveys
- Guideline on risk management systems for food safety organizations
- Port Community Systems: Lessons From Global Experience
- Risk Prioritization in Phytosanitary Management: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Fiji: Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders
- Aid for Trade at a Glance 2019 — The Critical Role of Trade Facilitation in Supporting Economic Diversification and Structural Reforms (World Bank Group: Chapter 6)
- Reducing Bottlenecks and Facilitating Trade in Zambia
Videos
- TFSP: Streamlining Trade, Boosting Access to Markets
- From Catch to Commerce: Growing the Economy in Tonga Through Trade Facilitation
- Trade as a Lifeline: Lessons from Tonga During Times of Crisis
- Tonga: Building Emergency Response and Preparedness
- Tonga: Building Climate Resilience through Trade Facilitation Improvements | Virtual Reality 360° Video
- Trade Is Transforming Agriculture and Lives in Zambia
- Electronic Phytosanitary Certificates For Safe and Efficient Trade in Zambia
- Zambia: Diversifying the Economy Through Trade Facilitation Reform | Virtual Reality 360° Video
- Empowering Trade, Empowering Timor-Leste
- How is Fiji getting one step closer to automated trade?
- Single Window: A Path to Paperless Trade
- Unlocking Trade for Women in the Pacific
- Managing Risk and Facilitating Trade During the COVID-19
- 360 Video: Making trade faster, cheaper and easier in Sierra Leone
- 360 Video: Trading Across Borders in Guatemala and Honduras
- The Trade Facilitation Support Program: Hear from our partners
- The Trade Facilitation Agreement: Increasing Trade, Boosting Investment
- Driving Jobs & Global Income Through Trade Facilitation
- Facilitating Trade Across Borders