How strategic are trade strategies? Trends for effective development (en)

While more than 40% of existing trade strategies identify trade integration and regionalism as crucial policy areas, less than 3% of the strategies are regional. Nor do they fully build on diversification opportunities in services and manufacturing.

This is one of many trends in trade strategies, which are key policy instruments to build competitiveness in regional and global markets. This report analyses trends from ITC’s Trade Strategy Map database, the world’s largest collection of trade development strategies.