Report of the Workshop to Provide an Introduction to Basic Techniques for Library Organization and Services

Informe del taller de trabajo de capacitación en métodos de organización de colecciones, especialmente algunas de documentos adquiridos recientemente, y métodos para proveer acceso a la información y mejorar los servicios para los usuarios, en bibliotecas y servicios de información en San Vicente.

Report on a survey of agro-industrial activities in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

Includes bibliography

Report on Conference on the Organization and Financing of Sewerage Sector Development

Includes bibliography

Technological dimensions of economic diversification and development in the Caribbean with specific reference to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

Includes bibliography

Technology and work organization in Latin American motor vehicle industries

Includes bibliography

Políticas comerciales y compromisos en la Organización Mundial del Comercio = Trade policies and commitments in the World Trade Organization

Incluye Bibliografía

Organización y perspectivas futuras del ILPES = ILPES organization and future prospects

Incluye Bibliografía

The Role of Technical Assistance in World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Negotiations

This issue of the Bulletin presents a brief review of trade facilitation negotiations from the specific viewpoint of technical assistance, capacity-building and special and differential treatment (SDT). Trade facilitation negotiations have focused on clarifying three articles of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): article V (freedom of transit); article VIII (fees and formalities connected with importation and exportation); and article X (publication and administration of trade regulations). Although the stage of text-based negotiations has not yet been reached, the process of receiving and analysing proposals has made it possible to identify the aspects most urgently in need of correcting by means of trade facilitation measures. Consideration has been given to several formulas for the implementation of those measures and to how the associated technical assistance should be organized.

Trade facilitation in the mulitilateral framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

This article is a follow-up to the FAL Bulletin No. 167, in the sense that it considers developments in trade facilitation within WTO. Its focus, however, is exclusively on what has occured within WTO in this area. Emphasis is placed not only on expanding on, but also on updating the relevant background information presented on the Subject in FAL No. 167. An attempt has been made to incorporate some analytical elements into an orientation that is primarily descriptive.