Natural Disasters and Recovery Efforts: Tapping into Trade Facilitation as a Response Tool

This issue of Trade Hot Topics explores the linkages between trade facilitation and natural disasters, highlighting key provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and exploring novel issues in trade facilitation to shed light on this interplay to better understand how countries can promote trade facilitation reform with a view to responding better to the impacts of natural disasters.