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EU trade policy towards developing countries, including Aid for Trade
EU trade policy towards developing countries, including Aid for Trade
EU trade policy towards developing countries, including Aid for Trade
EU trade policy towards developing countries, including ‘Aid for Trade’
SUMMARY OF:
EU strategy on ‘Aid for Trade’: enhancing EU support for trade-related needs in developing countries
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE COMMUNICATION AND THE STRATEGY?
KEY POINTS
The communication highlights the role of the following trade and development instruments for the benefit of developing countries and LDCs:
The strategy sets out a series of priorities:
Financing:
Additional points:
The use of trade as a tool for inclusive growth and sustainable development is also highlighted in the 2011 communication ‘Increasing the Impact of EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change’; and emphasised further in the 2012 communication ‘Trade, growth and development — Tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need’.
BACKGROUND
* KEY TERMS
Aid for Trade (AfT): aid that helps partner countries take advantage of opportunities created by unilateral, bilateral or multilateral trade agreements.
MAIN DOCUMENTS
EU Strategy on Aid for Trade: Enhancing EU support for trade-related needs in developing countries — Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, 29 October 2007
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee — Trade, growth and development — Tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need (COM(2012) 22 final, 27.1.2012)
RELATED DOCUMENTS
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Increasing the impact of EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change (COM(2011) 637 final, 13.10.2011)
European Commission Staff Working Document — Aid for Trade — Report 2015: Review of progress by the EU and its Member States (SWD(2015) 128 final, 22.6.2015)
last update 14.03.2017