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Support for the United States' active trade agenda – including for bilateral and regional trade agreements as well as U.S. participation in the WTO – has been built through constant coordination with Congress and extensive outreach to U.S. industry leaders, entrepreneurs, farmers, ranchers, small business owners, workers, state and local government officials, and advocates for labor rights, environmental protection, and public health, among other issues. (...)

(…) ETP (Economic Transformation Programme) has identified manufacturing related NKEAs (National Key Economic Areas) that require focused development and support. It aims to build up higher value-added subsectors such as LED lighting, solar panels and generic drug manufacturing.

Ghana is enthusiastic about the development-oriented outcomes that the Doha Round could achieve if negotiation builds momentum. The Doha Round has the potential to reverse the marginalization of some developing countries and least developed countries and help them to meet the Millennium Development Goals. A successful conclusion to the Doha Round and a reinvigorated multilateral trading system would deliver opportunities to all participants, including the smallest, weakest and most vulnerable economies. The development imperative remains crucial. Consequently, WTO members must take a dynamic approach to fulfilling it, bringing developing and least developed countries fully within reach of the new trading opportunities that can help them to alleviate poverty and put their economies on the path of sustainable growth and development.

Government formulated Export Policy 2015-2018 to promote and facilitate export, improve quality of the exportable items, use environment friendly technologies and produce high value added and labour intensive products.(...)

On 20 November 2013, the EU adopted its 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP) to 2020. It is a common strategy for both EU institutions and Member States and shall guide environment policy. The EAP identifies three key objectives to be achieved by 2020:
• to protect, conserve and enhance the Union’s natural capital;
• to turn the Union into a resource-efficient, green, and competitive low-carbon economy;
• to safeguard the Union's citizens from environment-related pressures and risks to health and wellbeing.
In addition, four so-called 'enablers' will help Europe deliver on these goals:
• better implementation of legislation;
• better information by improving the knowledge base;
• more and wiser investment for environment and climate policy;
• full integration of environmental requirements and considerations into other policies.
Finally, two additional horizontal priority objectives complete the programme:
• to make the Union's cities more sustainable;
to help the Union address international environmental and climate challenges more effectively;

(...) the links between trade and the environment are increasingly close and offer a growing number of opportunities to forge virtuous and complementary ties. Both the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Change Agreement have set the scene for trade to play a more prominent role in tackling climate change challenges. Costa Rica is of the view that there is enormous potential for expanding collaboration between the trade and environment communities so that both can work together and in a mutually beneficial manner.

The United States continues to rely on its trade advisory committee system as an integral part of its efforts to ensure that U.S. trade policy and trade negotiating objectives adequately reflect U.S. public and private sector interests. The trade advisory committee system consists of 28 advisory committees, with a total membership of over 500 advisors. It includes committees representing sectors of industry, small business, and agriculture; labor, environment, consumer, and health organizations; as well as state and local interests. The system is arranged in three tiers: the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN); five policy advisory committees dealing with environment, labor, agriculture, Africa, and state and local issues; and 22 technical advisory committees in the areas of industry and agriculture.

(...) In addition, during TPP negotiations, USTR worked with each TPP partner hosting negotiating rounds to plan events open to registered stakeholder participation. These events, including during the final round of negotiations in Atlanta in September-October 2015, included briefings from chief negotiators and provided multiple opportunities to provide input into the negotiations, including those with respect to chapters addressing agriculture, market access for industrial goods, environment, tobacco, investment, pharmaceuticals, and intellectual property.

The primary objectives of Fiji's trade policy are as follows:
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• To facilitate the mainstreaming of gender, environmental protection and other related policies to ensure coordination and policy coherence.

As the signatories to the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, Brunei is involved in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, together with Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the United States of America and Viet Nam. The TPP is aimed at achieving a plurilateral ‘21st century’ free trade agreement that will further liberalise and integrate the economies of the Asia-Pacific. The TPP involves disciplines on areas such as the Environment, Government Procurement and Labour, amongst others. (…)