UN Trade and Development

Monitoring and evaluation remain a key weakness for national trade facilitation committees.

Bridging this gap will be crucial to accelerating reforms for faster, cheaper and more predictable cross-border trade.

For more insights, explore UNCTAD’s report “Status and outlook for National Trade Facilitation Committees – 2025”.

Trade facilitation reforms are moving forward, but weak monitoring could slow progress Weak monitoring can make trade facilitation reforms look more advanced than they are and slow progress where it matters most: at borders, ports and trade corridors.

The ocean economy is changing: services surpassed goods to account for over 58% of ocean trade ($2.5 trillion) in 2025, up from 47% in 2020.

On World Oceans Day, UNCTAD explores how developing economies can turn this shift into greater value creation, innovation and stronger ocean conservation.

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Ocean services lead trade, opening new opportunities for developing economies Services now account for most of the world’s $2.5 trillion ocean-related trade, overtaking goods and opening new opportunities for developing countries to create value from the ocean while protecting it.

In Antananarivo, Acting Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno met with President Michael Randrianirina of Madagascar.

They discussed UNCTAD’s support for Madagascar’s national development priorities, including opportunities to add value and diversify economic activity within and beyond the country’s critical energy transition minerals value chain.

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