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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. (...)

(...) Implementation of key objectives of the Master Plan for Sustainable Tourism Development continued to be pursued. Areas of priority over the review period included strengthening linkages, increasing visitor arrivals, accessing new markets, developing new products, attracting new investments, building new partnerships and developing human capital. (...)

(...) Sri Lanka has also submitted its application to receive preferential treatment from the EU under the Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance of the EU Generalized Scheme of Preferences.

The Angolan Government approved its long-term National Development Strategy, named "Angola 2025", materialized in the National Development Plan 2013-2017 ("Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento" - PND). As a result, the country entered in phase characterized by modernization and development sustainability, centred on stability, growth and empowerment of Angolan citizens.

One additional tool to reinforce supportiveness between trade liberalisation and sustainable development are the assessments of the potential effects of trade agreements on the pursuit of economic, social and environmental goals. In the European Union, such assessments are carried out throughout the policy-making cycle: ex ante, in the form of Impact Assessments, when a new policy is developed; during the course of the negotiations, as Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs); or as ex-post analyses when an agreement is implemented. The assessments address significant and relevant economic, social, human rights and environmental impacts, and aim at providing information to policy-makers on how to maximise the positive effects and/or mitigate possible negative consequences of the trade agreements. All of them include broad consultations with relevant stakeholders, including civil society.

Samoa's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change includes the target of 100% renewable energy by 2025.
This reflects Samoa's commitment to address the need for energy in a sustainable way, whilst reduce the energy import bill. (...)

As a landlocked country, Armenia's economy heavily depends on international transit and cross-border access. To ensure access to foreign markets the Transport Sector Development Strategy has been developed, which defines investment priorities in transport sector. It pursues maximization of the transport sector's performance by 2020, and envisages a long-term prosperity through establishment of efficient, cost effective, environmentally and socially sustainable transport infrastructure and services.

(…) Myanmar is one of few countries in the world with natural teak forests and continuous efforts are deployed to preserve this unique endowment. Systematic forest management in Myanmar was first initiated in 1856 and was further consolidated into guiding principles in forest management in 1894. These principles are enshrined in the Myanmar Forest Policy of 1995.

(…) The SVGBS (St. Vincent and the Grenadines Bureau of Standards) is entitled to declare and review internationally recognized standards, ensures that imports are of the highest quality and that the health and safety of consumers are not compromised. It also has a duty to adequately protect the environment.

In December 2013, both the Environmental Affairs Council (EAC) under the CTPA (United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement) and the Environmental Cooperation Commission (ECC) under the United States-Colombia Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA), which entered into force on 28 June 2013, met. The Council and Commission also held a public session pursuant to the CTPA environment chapter and the ECA. The EAC reviewed implementation of the Environment Chapter of the CTPA including actions taken by both countries to increase levels of environmental protection, ensure effective enforcement of environmental laws, and provide opportunities for public participation in environmental governance and the trade policy-setting processes. The ECC reviewed ongoing environmental cooperation activities and approved and signed the first United States-Colombia Work Program for Environmental Cooperation under the ECA, which provides a robust framework for advancing environmental cooperation in the coming years. In 2015 and 2016, the United States and Colombia made progress toward the establishment of an independent secretariat to receive and consider submissions from the public on matters regarding enforcement of environmental laws pursuant to Article 18.8 of the CTPA, and hope to finalize the agreement in 2016 or early 2017. The secretariat mechanism is intended to promote public participation in the identification and resolution of issues regarding each party's enforcement of its environmental laws.