Programme to support the Republic of Chad in the implementation and monitoring of its trade policies.

Three-fold purposes: to assist Chad in the implementation of its trade policies, customs formalities and to achieve implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement; assistance to improve Chad’s institutional capacities in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of trade policies, and multilateral and regional trade negotiations; and support for strengthening foreign trade statistics, including in the field of trade in services.

Four-fold outputs: The Support Programme contributed to:

• Study on the Modernization of Customs Procedures and Implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement in CHAD;
• A roadmap for the implementation of the agreement on trade facilitation;
• Development of an action plan to monitor trade negotiations;
• Research and compilation of statistical data on trade and establishment of a system for collecting and compiling trade statistics.

Intervention areas:

• Implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, streamlining of Customs procedures and formalities;
• Capacity building on trade negotiations;
• System for processing and analyzing statistics on trade in services;
• Research and compilation of statistical data on external trade;
• Establishment of foreign trade indices.

Purpose 1 – support for the implementation and monitoring of Chad's trade policies

• Study on the Modernization of Customs Procedures and Implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement in CHAD undertaken;
• Roadmap for the implementation of the agreement on trade facilitation in Chad prepared;
• Documentary Process of Authorized Economic Operator Status developed;
• Scheme of the advance ruling in order to facilitate and accelerate the customs clearance process prepared;
• Risk Management Diagram of customs prepared;
• Legal questionnaire of the training workshop circulated to key stakeholders and adequate feedbacks obtained;
• Training materials prepared and the training workshop successfully held for the key stakeholders from the trade support institutions and business community.

Purpose 2 – support for the improvement of institutional capacity in formulation, implementation and monitoring of trade policies

• Action plan for monitoring trade negotiations and improving the business climate, and for the implementation of trade agreements;
• Training modules on trade negotiations prepared and the training workshop for trade officials and the business community successfully held.

Purpose 3 - Support for strengthening statistics on foreign trade and services

• Methodology for setting up a system for compiling foreign trade indexes developed;
• Methodology for setting up a system for collecting and compiling commercial statistics developed;
• Methodology for calculating indexes of external trade developed;
• Elaboration of indexes and analysis undertaken;
• Document: Evolution of indexes of unit values, total quantities and total values of imports of goods—prepared and widely circulated among key stakeholders;
• Study- Specification of variables and tariff headings according to the Harmonized System (HS) undertaken;
• Training workshops successfully implemented and reports prepared and circulated among the key stakeholders.