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Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps Tackling internal barriers to trade: lessons from Moldova

Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps Tackling internal barriers to trade: lessons from Moldova Geneva, 11 July, 2013. Shifting landscape for the sector. Agriculture: around 11% of GDP; Employing almost third of labor force; Balanced external trade in agrifood ;

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Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps Tackling internal barriers to trade: lessons from Moldova

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  1. Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps Tackling internal barriers to trade: lessons from Moldova Geneva, 11 July, 2013

  2. Shifting landscape for the sector • Agriculture: around 11% of GDP; • Employing almost third of labor force; • Balanced external trade in agrifood; • Still relatively protected but changing; • Fresh fruits and vegetable exports around 13% (2012) • High external market concentration

  3. Key constraints and key trends Key Constraints: • Administrative (Customs, Tax, SPS) • occasional, short-term, can be dismantled by administrative decisions • Structural – long-term and costly • Satisfying prospective demand (quantity and quality); • Infrastructure and skills; • Marketing knowledge and know-how;

  4. Key external trends

  5. Arising challenges • Quantity to lure supermarket chains; • Consistent quality; • Rhythmicity (whole year availability) • Price competitiveness • Increased competition on open air markets + lack of hold on Russian supermarkets + need for stronger positioning and promotion of the country brand • Lack of experience on the European markets, lack of cooperation and positioning

  6. Key issues and responses • Insufficient cooperation: public support for cooperation + grants for association • Lack of big intensive orchards: state subsidies + land consolidation (underdeveloped land market, suboptimal privatization model) • Lack and under-use of cooling storages: association and state support (customs duties vacation for import of cooling storage equipment) • Lack of calibration equipment: state subsidies, custom duties’ facilitation, cooperation

  7. Key issues and responses

  8. Key issues and responses

  9. Key issues and responses • Lack of modern orchards (80% old/apples) – state subsidies, support for cooperation, adoption of the EU catalogue, land consolidation • Lack of hold on abroad markets: promotion of the country’s commercial brand + strengthening capacity of association for export promotion + PPP-based platform to advance exports

  10. UNDP Moldova • http://md.undp.org/ • Alexandru.oprunenco@undp.org

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