Since 2004, the number of trade-facilitation bodies
has increased further, triggered by the start of the
negotiations on trade facilitation in the context of
the Doha Development Agenda of WTO in July that
year111 (see figure 5). The establishment of a national
trade-facilitation committee is included in the WTO
Trade Facilitation Agreement, adopted at the ninth
Ministerial Conference held in Bali in December
2013.112