ISLAMABAD - A three-day training course on trade policy formulation and competitiveness analysis concluded on Wednesday under the Trade Related Technical Assistance (TRTA II) programme. The TRTA II programme is implemented by United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in collaboration with International Trade Centre (ITC) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This training course was jointly organised by ITC and PITAD with technical assistance from the Switzerland-based World Trade Institute (WTI). Resource persons from WTI, IBA, Karachi, and PITAD conducted the said training course. The TRTA II programme, facilitated by ITC, initiated a MoU between WTI and PITAD for a twining arrangement to build training and research related capacities of the local training institutes. This MoU aims at building the capacity of local trainers and institutions (in particular PITAD to deliver trainings on trade policy issues. For this purpose, during this year, Master Trainers from PITAD, IBA Karachi, LUMS and TDAP were selected to participate in a 3-week training programme which included individual mentoring from the WTI on trade policy issues.