Why TradeCom

The TradeCom Programme was established to provide and coordinate trade-related technical assistance to ACP countries. It aims at consolidating, and even creating, where absent, the necessary capacity that would enable ACP countries to craft trade policies with a view to achieving sustainable development, poverty reduction and successful integration into the global trading system.

The Programme therefore intends to develop capacity within the ACP countries and regions and to provide intellectual expertise to help them to devise their own development-oriented trade policies, to implement existing trade agreements, and to formulate effective negotiation strategies on trade matters.