KENYA HOSTS TRADE FACILITATION ROUNDTABLE MEETING OF THE BOKSBURG GROUP
Members of the Boksburg Group met on 24th to 25th July 2005 at Mombasa, Kenyas most important port city and gateway to the East and Central Africa region, for two days of intensive deliberations on progress towards conclusion of a Trade Facilitation agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO). In July 2004, the WTO agreed to commence negotiations towards concluding such an agreement in what has informally taken the name of the July Package in a development that was hailed as a major step towards reviving the stalled WTO negotiations after the failure of the Cancun talks in September 2003.
The Boksburg Group is an informal group of mainly developing countries, created to discuss the form and content the emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on Trade Facilitation. Participants in Boksburg Group roundtables are drawn from key stakeholders in the movement of goods, and include government trade departments, customs and business. Previous meetings of the Group have been held in South Africa (thus the name of the Group), Singapore, and Jamaica.
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