In response to the request by the Iraqi government, CLDP organized a four-day workshop to introduce 17 Iraqi officials to international standards and best practices in procurement. The workshop took place in Amman, Jordan from March 29 to April 1, 2009.

With CLDP guidance, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman and the University of Bahrain (UB) competed in the Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. CLDP advisors prepared faculty and students for the competition with pre-moot exercises and guidance on writing memoranda and effective...

CLDP, in collaboration with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other relevant stakeholders, organized U.S. consultations for a delegation of Omani Customs officials to thoroughly familiarize Oman Customs with the way the US administers...

In response to a request from the Libyan Government, CLDP planed and implemented the first seminar of a four-phase program intended to build the Libyan judiciary's capacity to adjudicate fairly and consistently international trade/investment disputes and enforce arbitral awards.

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.

To follow up on previously held commercial law workshops for Bahrain's legal and judicial community, CLDP facilitated consultations with U.S. federal judges in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. in July 2009.

A delegation of Customs officials from the Kingdom of Bahrain was in Washington, DC the week of September 28, 2009, participating in consultations with experts from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the private sector.

CLDP and USTR, in conjunction with the Gulf Standards Organization (GSO) organized a two-day workshop to promote greater understanding and cooperation between the U.S. and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Standards and Regulations.

CLDP organized a three-day workshop in Rabat involving a team of experts from US Census Bureau, US Department of Commerce, and their counterparts in GOM. The program provided a forum and itinerary to discuss each nation's respective trade statistics analyses and the potential causes for the...

In conjunction with the Kuwaiti Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, CLDP organized a two-day Commercial Law Conference in Kuwait City related to dispute resolution in the Arabian Peninsula.