From February 2 – 7, 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany, CLDP partnered with USAID’s Trade Central Asia activity and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to conduct a workshop on marketing strategies and trade fair best practices for a group of 10 small and medium women-run artisan...

On March 12-14, CLDP held an in-person meeting of the SPS Working Group in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in cooperation with USTR and USDA.  This working group meeting engaged representatives from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss sanitary and phytosanitary...

From January 17 to 20, CLDP held a workshop on stakeholder engagement for digital trade related policymaking for participants from the government and non-government sectors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the United States. Government officials from...

The objective of this workshop was to work with government personnel in PPP units, Ministries of Finance, or other line ministries charged with infrastructure project evaluation and oversight to further develop their PPP capacity. To achieve these goals, CLDP is transcribing and captioning into...

On May 31, CLDP, in collaboration with the EBRD, OECD, MAPS Secretariat, UNCITRAL, WTO Secretariat, World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, organized a procurement workshop for Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Leading procurement specialists from multilateral development organizations and...

In April 2022, CLDP held four separate in-person roundtable meetings on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan respectively. Roundtables were attended by officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Agency for Plant Protection and...

On April 19-22, CLDP, in partnership with the International Road Transport Union, hosted the Central Asia Regional Customs Working Group meetings gathering over 20 expert-level customs officials and the private sector representatives of transport operators from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic...

On March 14-15, 2022, CLDP hosted a virtual meeting of the Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group gathering over 72 expert-level government officials and private sector women representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan...

On March 18, CLDP, in close partnership with the International Road Transport Union, supported the first digital TIR (the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets) transport of goods from Uzbekistan to the Kyrgyz Republic replying upon digital TIR...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan | April 18 - 19, 2022 | Digital Trade

The U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Law and Development Program (CLDP) hosted digital trade meetings with government, private sector, and civil society as part of the U.S.-Central Asia Regional Digital Trade Working Group...