Quantitative Aspects ofMeasuring Aid for Trade

United States

Elena BryanDeputy Assistant USTR

for Trade Capacity Building

Collecting Data on TCB

What we collect

How we collect it

How we use it

Looking forward

What we collectHow we collect it

+USAID annually surveys all USG agencies conducting A4T/TCB activities

+Agencies report programs, by country or region and by TCB category

+Information loaded into publicly available database

http://qesdb.usaid.gov/tcb

+USG has provided more than $6.5 billion in A4T/TCB since 1999

How we define Aid for Trade

+ A4T and Trade Capacity Building (TCB) are used interchangeably

+ Core TCB activities as defined in the WTO/OECD database

+ Plus Physical Infrastructure Development:

--Physical Infrastructure Development is assistance

to establish trade-related telecoms, transport, ports, airports, power, water, and industrial zones.

How we use the data we collect

+ In discussions with trading partners

---Including cotton and trade facilitation

+ Internal coherence and coordination

+Identification of gaps and better targeting of assistance

+ With Congress, including in the budget process

Looking Forward

+ Stovepipe data collection is expensive, cumbersome, and duplicative

+ Mainstream A4T/TCB data collection into regular development assistance collection activity and reporting

+ Challenge is keeping the detail