Philippines Works with St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade to Maximize Global Trade Alert Platform

From left to right: Mr. Fernando Martín Espejo (Research Economist at St. Gallen), Professor Simon J. Evenett (Founder, The St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade), Philippine Ambassador and Permanent Representative to WTO Manuel A.J. Teehankee, Mr. Gabriel R. Bautista, Mr. Raymond Albert Batac and Mr. André Brotto (Research Economist at St. Gallen). (photo from Geneva WTO)

GENEVA 13 October 2023 – To capacitate the Philippines in conducting economic surveillance and policy analysis, the Philippine Mission to WTO welcomed Professor Simon J. Evenett, Founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade, for consultations on 27 September 2023.

Professor Evenett, an expert on international trade and economic development, together with his team of research economists, Mr. Fernando Martín Espejo and Mr. André Brotto, provided a briefing to the Philippine Mission on how to utilize the Capacities for Trade Policies (C4TP) and its Global Trade Alert Platform. The C4TP Global Trade Alert Platform allows the Philippines, as one of the project’s beneficiaries, to obtain targeted information on how trade policies of other countries are impacting the Philippine economy, by either restricting or facilitating trade in goods of key export sectors. The platform provides numerous functionalities to provide curated information, which can be focused on selected economies or industries that are important to the Philippines, such as electronics, food and agricultural products, and other industrial products. Users are able to obtain up to date information on trade regulations and policies, including those that have yet to be notified to the WTO.

The Swiss government is funding the Capacities for Trade Policies (C4TP) project and the Mission intends to conduct a virtual outreach briefing in the coming months with Philippine government and stakeholders to broaden the use of the C4TP tool. Similar outreach activities have been conducted with Brazil and Thailand. END.

Professor Evenett giving a walk-through of the Capacities for Trade Policies (C4TP) website for the Philippine Mission personnel. (photo from Geneva WTO)

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