Welcome to Yemen Trade Portal

The Yemen Trade Portal is a major improvement in trade facilitation, a site where you can find all the information you need on regulatory requirements for international trade. This portal is designed to make trading easy for small/medium and women-owned businesses which do not have resources for researching legislation and relying on specialized expertise.

The information portal is a project of the Ministry of Trade and all ministries and agencies involved in the cross-border movement of goods. The Yemen Trade Portal is designed with the support of USAID’s Yemen Economic Stabilization and Success (YESS) program. It is a platform that allows the information on import, export, and transit formalities, current regulations, and all international trade procedures to be accessible in a transparent, timely, and accurate manner.

The expected benefits of this improvement are essential to allow all actors of foreign trade both Yemenis and foreigners to be able to have in one place a tool which allows them to have a reliable source of information, to facilitate research on the regulation of foreign trade in Yemen in import, export, and transit of goods. Regulatory trade information will be released as soon as possible so that governments and traders can use it.

This project is part of the World Trade Organization’s Bali agreements on trade facilitation (the final agreement begins with a three-page ministerial declaration, acknowledging the accession of Yemen and adopting decisions on the ten texts regarding the three pillars of the Bali package: trade facilitation, some agricultural issues, and selected development-focused provisions).

In the WTO’s Bali package, Article 1 makes it mandatory for WTO member states to publish a range of specific information concerning the regulatory requirements and procedures for customs clearance of goods for import, export, and transit regulatory requirements on the Internet. Through this Yemen will be compliant with these trade facilitation agreements. The creation of a trade information portal is an essential component, a fundamental asset to facilitate trade, increase transparency and predictability, strengthen cooperation between the public authorities responsible for foreign trade, and guarantee a more attractive environment for foreign investors.