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This study highlights the emerging dynamics and further potential of intra-Commonwealth trade and investment.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics focuses on the integration of small economies in value chains in the agrifood, seafood, and textiles and apparel sectors in the case of goods, and in tourism as well as IT and business process outsourcing in the case of services.

Developing countries, including as small states and least developed countries (LDCs), continue to face significant challenges within the global trading system. Action is required to allow them to overcome disadvantages and achieve sustainable levels of income from trade.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics will focus only on non-tariff measures (NTMs) as they fall within the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) pillar of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in light of the WTO 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

This issue of Trade Express focuses on the support provided by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Trade Competitiveness Section to the Government of Barbados in order to revitalise the services sector in the country through the development of a National Services Sector Development Plan (NSSD).

Small states face significant hurdles in securing the potential benefits of trade to their economies and in protecting themselves against trade practices and rules that harm their interests.

Regional integration through regional value chains (RVCs) can help sub-Saharan Africa to trigger structural transformation in its economies.

This paper analyses empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes have assisted the process of structural transformation in African countries.

This paper considers in detail the various factors that drive competitiveness in services, a critical but often overlooked part of the global value chain, and the policy levers available to influence them.

The trade relationship between India and Pakistan is considered to be one of the most important determinants of the South Asian regional integration initiative.

Regional Integration in South Asia: Trends, Challenges and Prospects presents an objective assessment of trade and economic co-operation among South Asian nations and highlights policy issues to foster regional integration. The analyses presented in this volume go beyond the usual discussions on trade-in-goods to provide insightful perspectives on potential new areas of co-operation, emerging challenges, and country-specific views on regional and bilateral trade co-operation issues.

This paper provides the first specific evaluation of the participation of Commonwealth small states and LDCs in WTO dispute settlement.

This paper reflects on small and poor developing countries’ needs from a multilateral trading system.