REPORT ON THE TRAINING ON TRADE FACILITATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AFCFTA

By: CDP CONSULT LTD
The Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry (MINICOM) organized the training on Trade
facilitation with collaboration and support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which currently provides technical support to the African Union Commission
(AUC), AU member states (subscribed to the AfCFTA) and the AfCFTA Secretariat through its project
“African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”. The main objective of the training was to strengthen
the institutional capacity of the AfCFTA National Implementing Committee Working Groups, the
National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to
Trade (TBT) working group, and traders with the view to increase their knowledge and understanding
on: Trade facilitation in the framework of AfCFTA with the focus on the WTO trade facilitation
agreement; NTB Elimination Mechanisms in the Framework of AfCFTA; and WTO, SPS and TBT
agreements especially Annex 6 and 7 of the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Goods on SPS and TBTs.