Establishing Well Functioning National Trade Facilitation Bodies (NTFBs)
In the OIC Member States
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Annex C: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NTFBS STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIELD
Background
1. What is the official name of the national Trade Facilitation Mechanism?
2. What motivated the establishment of the TF body?
3. In which year was it established?
4. Do you have other national bodies dealing with WTO issues and/or with TF?
5. Was the TF BODY based on a previously existing multi-agency group/committee (e.g. a trade
and transport facilitation committee?
6. What is the current status of the TF body (running, pilot phase, study)
7. Where do the meetings have taken place?
8. Are there any sub-national TF coordination bodies/groups?
9. In the event, there are sub-national TF coordination bodies, how do they coordinate with the
capital?
Institutional Framework (focal point)
10. Has the TF body been set up as an ad hoc group, or a legal entity/organization?
11. What specific documents where necessary to institutionalize the group? Which body and at
which level made the decisions?
12. What is the scope/mandate of the TF body
13. Does the TF body have terms of reference?
14. Which is the coordinating agency?
15. What is the structure of the TF body (chair/co-chair, sub-groups, etc.)
16. Do you have a permanent technical Secretariat?
17. Please indicate the contact details of the chairman, president or Secretariat of the TF body
18. What is the role each stake holder plays in the NTFBs?
19. If there is a permanent technical Secretariat:
i) - What is their structure?
ii) - What is the number of people working there?
iii) - Which are its main tasks?
20. If there is not a permanent Secretariat, is there a focal point?
Membership / Composition
21. Which are the agencies participate in the TF body?
i) Which are the government agencies that participate? (e.g trade, customs, works,
communications and transport, agriculture, other agencies with export/import authorities)
ii) Which are the services providers that participate? (e.g. national associations of carriers and
freight forwarders, national associations of banking institutions, national associations of
insurance companies, association of customs brokers)
iii) Which are the traders participate? (chamber of commerce, manufacturer associations, other
associations of service users (exporters or importers)
22. What private associations or entities participate?
23. What is the level of seniority of the participants?
24. Do you have an (email) list with the contact details of the representatives?
25. If there is a rotation of an agency representative, is there a commitment of this agency to report
the Secretariat/TF focal point with the new contact details of the new representative?
Funding
26. Do you have a formal budget for the operations of the TF BODY?