Bhutan: Supporting Participation in the SASEC Trade Facilitation

This technical assistance will help strengthen the technical and institutional capacity of Bhutan’s Customs through better alignment of procedures and practice with internationally accepted standards. It will also reduce time and cost of trade for Bhutan through reduction of import-export processes.


PROJECT DETAILS

Commitment Date

Funding Type

Country

Sector

Status

Total Cost

11 Sep 2013

Technical Assistance

Bhutan

Trade Facilitation

Closed

$1.50 million

KEY OUTPUTS

Legal, administrative, and technical documents for Bhutan’s accession to the Revised Kyoto Convention prepared

Systems upgrades to the Regulatory Audit Management Information System supported

Strategic and technical advice to the Government to support the effective operations of the National Trade Facilitation Committee of Bhutan provided

FINANCING

$1.5 million (Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction)