Private Sector and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development Program Cluster (Subprograms I and II)

Trade policy should include measures that increase the benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from trade, including measures to make it administratively easy to obtain certificates of rules of origin, an outreach strategy to help SMEs on trade policy developments and utilization of preferential trade agreements, and implementation of intellectual property rights that could benefit SMEs, such as geographical indications (regional trademarks).