Establishing Well Functioning National Trade Facilitation Bodies (NTFBs)
In the OIC Member States
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3.5.11. United Arab Emirates
The official website of the United Arab Emirates government 67 mentions that the country is
conducting a project on Transport and Trade Facilitation (TFF) which has the main objective of
creating an effective national committee to facilitate and oversee transport and trade in the United
Arab Emirates. It is also mentioned that a draft committee charter will be developed and it will
include objectives of the committee, roles, and responsibilities, membership, funding of the TFF
scheme, and implementation.
Furthermore, in October 2010 a workshop by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(ESCWA) aimed at reviewing the potential establishment and activation of a national TTF committee
in the UAE. However, no website or official information is available on this committee.
The National Transport Authority (NTA) of the UAE, the Iraqi ministries of Trade and Transport, as
well as the Iraqi private sector, jointly organized a training workshop on the "Establishment of
National Transport and Trade Facilitation Committees in Iraq and the UAE". The workshop
concluded with the agreement on the draft resolution on the establishment of the national transport
and trade facilitation committee in Iraq, which was put together by UN-ESCWA.68
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