USAID chief announces scale up of trade facilitation alliance

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WASHINGTON — The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, an initiative aimed at helping countries reduce import barriers, will scale from four to 20 countries, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green announced Tuesday.

“We believe that private enterprise is the only sustainable way to lift lives, to build communities, and so we’re dedicated to working to find ways to ease the barriers for businesses to participate,” Green told a crowd of business leaders at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Conference.

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