{"id":64850,"date":"2020-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64850"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:23:23","slug":"un-body-announces-action-plan-to-facilitate-intl-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-body-announces-action-plan-to-facilitate-intl-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"UN body announces action plan to facilitate int&#8217;l trade amid COVID-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has outlined a 10-point action plan in a bid to help the global industrial sector efficiently transport goods &#8211; amid the restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic spread, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan permits bulk food import for supply to Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The action plan encompasses maritime transport, transit, customs, transparency and legal issues, along with a technological boost towards paperless mechanisms. It suggests eliminating the transport and trade barriers to secure the free flow of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/businessmen-govt-tax-refunds-resumption-goods-transportation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essentials and goods supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/oicci-asks-for-transparent-policies-long-term-tax-incentive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ease of Doing Business: OICCI asks for transparent policies, long-term tax incentives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the publication, the UNCTAD policy brief of this action plan calls of the free flow of shipping, open ports, expedited customs clearance, protection of international trade essentials, cross-border transport facilitation, transit trade, transparency and updated information stream, paperless trade system, early addressing of legal implications, protection of shippers and transporters and prioritisation of technical assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the plan highlights that given the radical measures adopted by the countries to control the coronavirus spread, the international transport and trade system has been under gigantic stress \u2013 which could threaten access to goods and critical supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has outlined a 10-point action plan in a bid to help the global industrial sector efficiently transport goods &#8211; amid the restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic spread, according to news sources. Read: Pakistan permits bulk food import for supply to Afghanistan The action plan encompasses maritime transport, transit, customs, transparency and legal issues, along with a technological boost towards paperless mechanisms. It suggests eliminating the transport and trade barriers to secure the free flow of essentials and goods supplies. Read: Ease of Doing Business: OICCI asks for transparent policies, long-term tax incentives As per the publication, the UNCTAD policy brief of this action plan calls of the free flow of shipping, open ports, expedited customs clearance, protection of international trade essentials, cross-border transport facilitation, transit trade, transparency and updated information stream, paperless trade system, early addressing of legal implications, protection of shippers and transporters and prioritisation of technical assistance. Furthermore, the plan highlights that given the radical measures adopted by the countries to control the coronavirus spread, the international transport and trade system has been under gigantic stress \u2013 which could threaten access to goods and critical supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15153],"tags":[6470,27720],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-64850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-trade","tag-unctad","tag-united-nations-conference-on-trade-and-development-unctad","cat-15153-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UNCTAD announces action plan to facilitate int&#039;l trade- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has outlined a 10-point action planto help the global industrial sector\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-body-announces-action-plan-to-facilitate-intl-trade.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNCTAD announces action plan to facilitate int&#039;l trade- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has outlined a 10-point action planto help the global industrial sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-body-announces-action-plan-to-facilitate-intl-trade.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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