The Union Government has constituted a National Committee on Trade Facilitation

The Union Government on 12 August 2016 constituted the National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF).
•    The committee seeks to develop the pan-India road map for trade facilitation as per the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
•    Earlier, on 22 April 2016, India ratified the TFA which is an outcome of the Bali Package 2013 or Ninth Ministerial Conference of the WTO.
•    It is an inter-ministerial body on trade facilitation.
•    It will act as a national level body that will facilitate domestic co-ordination and implementation of TFA provisions.
•    It will play lead role in developing the pan-India road map for trade facilitation.
•    It will synergise the various trade facilitation perspectives across the country.
•    The focus will be on outreach programmes for sensitization of stakeholders about it.
•    The committee will also be responsible for identifying the nature of required legislative changes and spearheading the diagnostic tools needed for assessing compliance to TFA.
•    It will have a 3-tier structure with main national committee for monitoring implementation of TFA.
•    At the apex level, it will be headed by the Union Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha.