In recent years, the Kingdom of Bahrain has undertaken a number of steps to reform its economy and modernize the ways in which Bahrainis do business.

As a follow-on to the 2008 IP Forum, CLDP held a two-day conference in Mali, that focused on the capacity building of Malian judges in the area of intellectual property.

CLDP and USPTO organized a two-day workshop for 25 judges, utilizing expertise from the U.S. Judiciary, USPTO, CLDP, the U.S. Department of Justice, the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine, and the IPR Enforcement Manual.

In October 2007 a Merchandise Trade Reconciliation Study was initiated to determine why there were significant differences between Moroccan export and U.S. import trade figures. The data from 2006 was reviewed since that was the first year of trade covered under the U.S.

In June 2008, Armenia's Prime Minister requested technical assistance from a Commerce-led delegation that visited Armenia. The Prime Minister asked Commerce to provide capacity building in technology transfer.