Report on the implementation of the integrated programme for commodities

Abstract

This report on the implementation of the Integrated Programme for Commodities is intended to give only an overview of the progress so far achieved. It nonetheless includes highlights of certain constraints encountered at the various levels and stages. It is in this regards that it examines a few international and regional actions that have been taken towards solving problems of commodity trade. Its major point of departure is resolution 93(IV) and some of the decisions taken subsequently by the Committee on Commodities of the Trade and Development Board of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as well as those of the Conferences of the African Ministers of Trade. Understandably, the report devotes more attention to the status of the Common Fund for the Commodities. Important to mention also, is the fact that this report is compiled in part on inputs made available by the Commodities Division of the UNCTAD Secretariat.