strategy
Promoting transparency in trade
Synonyms:
Lobbying for transparency in international trade Implementation:
Friends of the Earth International has played a leading role in efforts to "green the GATT" by having a number of meetings with inter-governmental and governmental trade officials and has published reports on the proposed Multilateral Trade Organization (MTO), on 'Transparency and Accountability in Trade Fora' and on 'Sustainable Commodity Production'. Narrower:
Improving business informationPromoting transparency in government procurementProviding international transparency in armamentsPromoting transparency in world trade negotiationsRequiring market transparency in electronic commerceAchieving better functioning and transparency of commodity markets Constrained by:
Maintaining official secrecyRestricting business practices Facilitates:
Using environmental labellingProtesting hidden costs of free tradeImproving systems of international tradeAmeliorating negative consequences of economic globalizationReducing protectionism in international trade Facilitated by:
Establishing transparency agenciesImproving financial reporting in the public sector Problems:
Environment policy as restriction on tradeFragmentation of the international trading system
Ineffectiveness of international commodity agreements
Limited observance of multilateral trade agreements
Preferential trade arrangements
Organizations:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Subjects:
Communication → InfluencingCommunication → Promotion
Commerce → Trade
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
