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NAV Non-Ad Valorem
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NTB Non-Tariff Barrier
NTM Non-Tariff Measure
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OIC Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
PAFTA Pan-Arab Free Trade Area
PAGE Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment
PPP purchasing power parity
PRETAS Protocol on Preferential Tariff Scheme
PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (Gambia)
PSA Partial Scope Agreements
PTN Protocol on Trade Negotiations
QR Quantitative Restrictions
RTA Regional Trade Agreement
SCEDP Sector Competitiveness and Export Diversification Project (Gambia)
SDG sustainable development goal
SESRIC Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic
Countries
SITC Standard International Trade Classification
SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
SMIIC Standards and Metrology Institute for the Islamic Countries
SOE State Owned Enterprises
SPA Strategy for Poverty Alleviation (Gambia)
SPS Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary
TAGEM General Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
TAO World Trade Organization Tariff Analysis Online
TBT Technical Barriers to Trade
TFA Agreement on Trade Facilitation
TIKA Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency
TISVA Turkey Waste Prevention Foundation
TOBB Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (Turkey)
TPS-OIC Trade Preferential System among the Member States of the OIC
TRQ Tariff Rate Quota
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UN Comtrade The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
UNCTAD-TRAINS United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Trade Analysis Information System
USA United States of America
USD United States dollar
WB World Bank
WDI World Development Indicators
WITS World Integrated Trade Solution
WTO World Trade Organization
WTO TPR World Trade Organization Trade Policy Review
WTO RTA-IS World Trade Organization Regional Trade Agreements
Information System