[{"bbox": [95, 151, 1132, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "The foreign trade related policies, regulations and law development and solutions are being adopted by different ministries and agencies and there is evident lack of coordination by the umbrella institution. This is therefore creating an unstable and unfavourable trading environment for exporters, intermediaries and primary producers."}, {"bbox": [95, 242, 1132, 482], "category": "Text", "text": "2. Need for enhanced Trade Facilitation – Implementing policies to increase and diversify exports based on public-private partnerships, reduce barriers in foreign trade and promote trade facilitation are key principles stated in the government’s Action Plan 2020-2024. Besides addressing technical barriers such as registration/certification and/or customs regulations, trade facilitation also involves other important issues currently not addressed, e.g. SPS standards, market intelligence, better access to finance, export guarantees and exploring the possibility of establishing Export Credit Agency. Sustainable solutions allowing small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) to increase their capacities to export need to be identified and developed in close consultation between public and private sector through intense Private-Public Dialogue. In terms of priority areas to be addressed for enhancing trade facilitations, the trading across border and single window activities could be furthermore supported."}, {"bbox": [95, 482, 1132, 695], "category": "Text", "text": "3. Need for Sector Specific Integrated Value chain development and SMEs' integration into Global value chains - Despite benefiting from GSP+ access to the EU market, Mongolia's exports of non-mining products remain limited. Exports (to neighboring countries) remain dominated by unprocessed or minimally processed products, mainly from the agricultural and mineral sectors, thus providing low value returns. Having a limited number of exportable products without diversifying the product mix, limits the value of PCA with the EU and FTAs. The opportunities for Small and Medium Enterprises in global value chains are enormous. Participation in value chain-based clusters exposes them to a large customer/buyer base and can enhance SME competitiveness, create more jobs, and promote green, sustainable/climate smart and inclusive growth."}, {"bbox": [95, 695, 1070, 750], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [95, 772, 1130, 1637], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Stakeholders</th><th>Mandates, potential roles</th><th>Problems/Issues affecting performance</th><th>Capacities</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Public Sector – in particular Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industries, Customs Administration, General Agency for Specialized Inspection, Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology, National Committee on Gender Equality</td><td><ul><li>Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the main Government organization dealing with foreign trade</li><li>All 4 clusters that are planned to be supported by the action are under the mandate of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Food and Light Industries.</li><li>Customs Administration is a key organization in trade facilitation</li><li>General Agency for Specialized Inspection will have a role of overseeing conformity of standards and enforcement of legislations</li><li>Standardization Agency has a key role in adopting new standards that enables export of goods to the EU market</li><li>National Committee on Gender Equality is</li></ul></td><td><ul><li>Experiencing difficulties in understanding complex multilateral, regional and European trading environment due to lack of capacity and expertise</li><li>Limited institutional and technical capacity to develop, implement, monitor and coordinate policies, thereby fostering an enabling environment that facilitates foreign trade</li><li>Organizations dealing with different aspects of trade are not under the same ministry and this situation often requiring complex coordination efforts; lack of an integrated trade policy system as umbrella</li><li>Human resource constraints due to changes in personnel</li></ul></td><td>Strong influence in creating an enabling environment.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1142, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 23"}]