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In 2009, the Administration actively engaged its trading partners to address illegal logging and associated trade and to identify the potential for a positive agenda in areas where international trade policy and efforts to address global climate change overlap

One of the government’s objectives in the energy sector is to improve the efficiency of energy use.

To ensure domestic supply and for environmental reasons, Brunei continues to restrict imports and exports of timber and products thereof (sections 3.1.5.2 and 3.2.3).

(…) The Government has continued to autonomously liberalize foreign equity restrictions in a swathe of services sectors; in 2012, it commenced implementation of partial or complete lifting of foreign equity restrictions in 17 services subsectors, under 6 sectors: professional services; communications services; distribution services; educational services; environmental services; and health related and social services. (…)

Trade related assistance should therefore be unconditional, demand driven, not related to any previous trade negotiations and incremental to existing programs. In this regard, such arrangements would mean non-reciprocity with developed countries. The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines remains committed to the process of liberalization, however, given its classification as a middle income country, development assistance under the Aid for Trade regime would continue to be miniscule. This technical barrier would therefore need to be overcome if vulnerable island Member States are to realise worthwhile objectives of sustainable development. In short, the limited progress Small Developing Island States have made in realizing true benefits from trade liberalization have been stymied by the unequal relationships and classifications with developed countries.

In June 2014, the President issued a Presidential Memorandum on Combating Illegal Fishing and Seafood Fraud. The memorandum established a Presidential Task Force that developed a comprehensive framework to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud, which is outlined in the Action Plan on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud (Action Plan), released in March 2015. The Action Plan specifically calls for the United States to seek commitments from U.S. trading partners to combat IUU fishing and eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies, such as those that go to illegal fishers. The TPP Environment Chapter includes commitments in this areas, and the United States is seeking similar commitments in the T-TIP negotiations.

Fishing has an important role in the economy, and Chinese Taipei has unique oceanographic traits and biodiversity. In 2012, fishing accounted for 0.7% of GDP and 3% of total employment. Fishery is an exporting sector, accounting for 0.7% of merchandise exports in 2012, equivalent to 29% of combined agriculture, fishing and forestry exports.

(...) The Ministries of: Agriculture, Environmental Protection, Finance, Industry and Information Technology, and Transportation are also involved in the formulation and implementation of trade policy.

Premier institutional reforms have taken place in the wake of the 18th constitutional Amendment. With political, legislative and administrative powers devolved to provincial governments and federating units in a number of key areas such as agriculture, environment, social services including education and health, there has been a recalibration of powers, roles and functions between the federal and provincial governments.

The legal basis for fisheries in Angola is Fisheries Law No. 6 A/04 of 8 October 2004 and subsequent regulations. It provides for a fisheries management regime based on a total authorized catch (TAC) determined annually for each fishery, and for limiting access by means of licences/quotas, as well as closed seasons and mesh size regulation. These management measures are reviewed periodically, in particular depending on stock assessment findings and estimates of the fleet's economic performance.