The principal services offered by World Trade Agenda Consultants to corporate clients are:
§ Briefing § Reporting § Lobbying advice § Relationship development § Public affairs assistance § Speechwriting
World Trade Agenda Consultants’ services to corporate clients and trade associations respond either to their need to maintain a broad up-to-speed familiarity with negotiating developments or their more focused interest in specific dossiers or sectoral interests.
CEOs and senior managers in most major firms have no need of daily briefing on trade policy issues. They may, however, want regular updates to enhance their perceptions of likely changes in the global marketplace as a whole. Equally, they may require more detailed understanding of the manner in which particular trade negotiations, disputes will affect individual products, services or country/regional markets. They may wish to make public statements and speeches on the issues – but to be relevant, topical and sensitive. We work often with government relations and public affairs staff to provide such assistance.
Trade associations may wish to prepare appropriate and timely submissions to governments which take good account of on-the-ground procedures, processes, relationships and negotiating chemistry. They may need an ongoing lobbying strategy. If so, they will need to understand the positions of not only their own domestic governments but of other trading and investment partners also. And they should not be satisfied with communicating vague assertions: they will need solid factual background and to make points which are valid. In short, they need the means to influence processes in the World Trade Organization and regional bodies that can be opaque, misleading and impenetrable for the outsider.
World Trade Agenda Consultants meets all these needs. We deal with our corporate clients on a confidential and flexible basis, providing the information and advice they need, when they need it. We seek to be concise and to the point. We have many years of experience which can open up the mysteries of trade negotiations in a way that newspapers and newsletters seldom do. Grasping what is happening today is easy: looking with precision and good judgement several stages down the road of a trade negotiation takes experience, familiarity, contacts and the ability to delve beyond publicly-promoted positions.
World Trade Agenda Consultants will adapt entirely to the requirements of its clients. In practical terms we can offer generalized reports and analysis on the World Trade Organization and its Doha Round of trade negotiations. We also report for clients on trade policy developments at the regional and national levels.
Clients often need specific reporting and analysis on individual negotiating dossiers, Doha Development Agenda issues, disputes, accession processes and the evolution of national positions in the WTO. We can provide one-off briefs on specific issues or sectoral/firm interests.
Services also include speechwriting in the areas of trade and investment issues, development policies, "globalization" and corporate interests in policy debates.
World Trade Agenda Consultants also offers international public affairs advice on trade-related issues. This includes media relations but also other presentational vehicles - for example "Powerpoint", Internet and CD-Rom presentations.
If you have such needs, or others in the trade policy field, do not hesitate to contact us.
