30/10/2022
International trade policy has evolved significantly over the past years, due to significant developments in the global economy, geopolitics and the shift in global power. The dynamic nature and flow of international trade also had an impact in this regard. Trade policy has evolved to meet the needs more related to trade liberalization policies led by the World Trade Organization at the multilateral levels, after it was dominated by protection policies in the form of tariffs, voluntary restrictions on trade and protection of local industry, and at the regional level this development came through integration initiatives Trade and at the unilateral level due to countries' increasing integration of trade into national development plans. The gradual reduction of tariffs today has focused trade policy on non-tariff restrictions, trade in services, the service component of manufactured goods, value, trade facilitation and trade processes, and generally on the regulatory environment for trade and doing business.
In addition, the international trade landscape is increasingly dominated by a large number of trade negotiations, whether they take place at multilateral, regional or bilateral levels.
Econosio has gradually developed a real comparative advantage in providing effective and sustainable support to our clients on trade policy and trade negotiation issues. These clients include national, continental and regional organizations focused on international trade, government institutions such as ministries of commerce and commerce, the private sector and other actors in the business community. We provide support in the form of commercial policy advice tailored to the client's needs, analytical studies that include good research and capacity building activities that result in the design, formulation and implementation of effective commercial policy, in a way that accommodates local issues and current local realities. We also conduct capacity building activities related to the issues under negotiation as well as techniques related to negotiations. This allows our clients to develop strategic options for all types of business negotiations under different scenarios, simulated or through real negotiations.
We are constantly working to help our clients deal with non-tariff restrictions, and develop an enabling regulatory environment for trade and business development through our specialized work on intellectual property rights, competition policy, and other related topics. We have become one of the main development partners of many regional integration organizations.
