INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON MSMES
OPEN-ENDED MEETING OF 26 June 2025
Summary of discussions
The following
communication, dated 3 September 2025, is being circulated at the request of
the Coordinator of the Informal Working Group on MSMEs, Ambassador Matthew
Wilson (Barbados).
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Contents
1
ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
2
TRADE4MSMES
3
THEMATIC DISCUSSIONS
3.1 Good Regulatory Practices. 2
3.2 Informality. 2
3.3 Digitalization. 3
3.3.1 Cross-border Paperless Trade
Database. 3
3.3.2 Deepening the construction &
connectivity of China's single window, and providing high-efficient services
for MSMEs – Presentation by China. 3
3.3.3 Virtual peer-learning event focused
on scalable digital solutions and regulatory simplification for MSMEs -
Proposal by Georgia. 4
3.3.4 ITC's Digital Trade Policy and
Regulatory work for SMEs
4
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECEMBER 2020 MSME PACKAGE
5
MC14 PREPARATION
6
STRENGTHENING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
6.1 Annual exchange with the Private
Sector 5
6.2 South Africa and the International
Trade Centre
7 BRIEFINGS ON MSME-RELATED DISCUSSIONS
IN OTHER WTO BODIES
7.1 Trade Facilitation
8 OTHER BUSINESS
ANNEX
Presentation by the WTO Secretariat - Good Regulatory
Practice. 8
Presentation by ESCAP - Tools for Trade
Digitalization: Cross-Border Paperless Trade Database. 13
Presentation by China - Deepening the Construction
& Connectivity of China's Single Window, and Providing High-efficient
Services for MSMEs. 21
Presentation by ITC - ITC’s Digital Trade Policy and
Regulatory work for SMEs. 26
Presentation by ITC - Global Trade Helpdesk initiative WTO IWG on MSMEs update. 30