CLDP supported the travel of the team from the University of Colombo to Geneva to participate in the global championship rounds of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. The team made it to the quarter finals of the global rounds after getting second place in the regional rounds - with two of...

CENTRAL ASIA CLDP facilitates meetings of expert level working groups comprised of relevant interested stakeholders from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Aligning with the goals of the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, the C5+1 Platform, and other U.S. government initiatives, the working groups seek to promote regional approaches...

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...

From March 11-19, CLDP, hosted bilateral stakeholder roundtables in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for the Regional Expert Level Working Group on Digital Trade. The goal of the Digital Trade Working Group is to engage with stakeholders in the region to develop an open, inclusive, and...

From December 11^th – 16^th, 2021, CLDP conducted a series of assessment meetings in Cairo, Egypt, designed to kickstart CLDP’s work with Egypt’s food safety regulatory regime and to deepen its understanding of Egypt’s needs in the area of trade facilitation. CLDP met with high-level representatives...

On November 1-2, CLDP, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Business Facilitation Program and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Gender & Economic Inclusion, led the Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment Working...

CLDP, in coordination with the Georgian National Competition Agency (GNCA), will lead a capacity building webinar on anti-dumping measures and proceedings. This webinar provided technical assistance to the GNCA to promote and implemented Georgia’s anti-dumping law in compliance with the World Trade...

CLDP, in coordination with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Armenia’s State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC), held a capacity building webinar focused on best practices in identifying and preventing abuse of dominance. The webinar was led by attorneys and subject...

On November 15th, CLDP launched the International Trade Law Program in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Over the past year, CLDP has been working with trade law experts and practitioners as well as university faculty from Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Moot Court Bench to organize a program that will provide trade...