Fluctuations in the global economy. Natural disasters. Climate change. These are but a few of the challenges that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face when it comes to exports.
ITC works with SIDS to improve their export performance through regional collaboration, focused sectoral programmes, institutional support and strengthening the private sector.
These countries are signatories to a multitude of international, regional and bilateral trade agreements in their concerted effort to deepen regional integration and the greater participation in the globalized economy. ITC’s tailored programme on business and trade policy works to demystify trade agreements from a business perspective. ITC also works to ensure that technical barriers to trade, as well as sanitary and phytosanitary measures, do not hinder countries from accessing the international markets.
Many SIDS also benefit from the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) programme, generally used by least developed countries, to facilitate export trade.
ITC aims to assist SIDS in building better management systems for export processes, improving provisions of export facilitation services and working toward reducing export transaction costs.
Small Island Developing States in which ITC works and are members of the UN:
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Cape Verde
Comoros
Cuba
Dominica
Domincan Republic
Fiji
Grenada
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Jamaica
Kiribati
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Mauritius
Nauru
Palau
Papau New Guinea
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Singapore
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grendadines
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Suriname
Timor-Leste
Small Island Developing States that are Non-UN Members/Associate Members of the Regional Commissions:
American Samoa
Anguilla
Aruba
British Virgin Islands
Commonwealth of Northern Marianas
Cook Islands
Guam
Montserrat
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
Niue
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
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