National agricultural Policy Center (NAPC)

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• National agricultural Policy Center (NAPC)
• The Operation of Trade and Trade Policy Division
  (TPD)
• By Isam Ismail
• TPD's Coordinator
• Damascus, September 7, 2005

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TPD Sections

• Trade agreements policies (including
  multilateral, Bilateral and regional trade
  agreements (Mahmoud Babbili and Yasser Al Issa)
• Domestic trade policies (Basheer Al Hamwi)
• Trade standards and measures (Hajar Baghasa)

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Activities

• SAT 2005
• SI Syrian-EU Association agreement
• Review Papers (RP)
• Policy Briefs (PB)
• Commodity Briefs
• Internal Seminar
• Seminars and workshops outside NAPC
• Abroad Visits

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Special Issue Syrian-EU Association Agreement

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Other Countries Experience
• Chapter 2 - Syria and Barcelona Process
• Chapter 3 - EU-Syria Trade Relation
• Chapter 4 - Expected Impacts, Conclusions and
  Policy Recommendations

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Review Paper (RP)

• Mahmoud Babbili Negotiations' Position of the
  Main trading partners and their Rationale
• Isam Ismail The Impacts of Agricultural Trade
  Liberalization on Development (Lessons for Syria)
• Hajar Baghasa Non-tariff barriers and Syrian
  Government Procedures towards Trade
  Liberalization
• Basheer Hamwi Main Determinant Factors of the
  Export Success
• Yasser Al Essa Is it possible to classify
  countries according to the size and forms of
  agricultural support?

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Policy Briefs

• Exporting in Syria business environment, trade
  reform and promotion activities (Basheer).
• Non-tariff barriers in Great Arab free Trade Area
  (Hajar).
• The WTO negotiations Will developing countries
  benefit from a new agreement? (Mahmoud)
• The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement Is
  it worth for Syria? (Yasser)
• Trade policy reform in Syria, what has changed?
  (Isam)

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Commodity Briefs

• Tomato
• Wheat
• Cotton
• Sheep

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2006 Workplan

• Reports
• Studies
• Working Papers
• Policy Briefs
• Commodity Briefs
• Events
• Training

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Remarks

• Reviewing process
• Crosscutting between TPD and AFD
• Tasks delay

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Thank you for your attention