Quantitative Aspects of

Measuring Aid for Trade

United States
Elena Bryan
Deputy 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 collect
How 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