Bauchi State Trade Facilitation Centre (BSTFC) emerged the first Trade Facilitation Centre in Nigeria. Situated in Bauchi city, the administrative capital of Bauchi State North East Nigeria. This singular accomplishment by His Excellency the Executive Governor of Bauchi State Sen. Bala Abdulkadir Muhammed CON (Kauran Bauchi, Jagaban Katagum) has elicited global attention and global commendation. The Word Trade Organization (WTO) has already acknowledged this monumental achievement by His Excellency the Executive Governor of Bauchi State having succeeded in establishing the first Trade Facilitation Centre in Nigeria and by extention the first of it kind on the entire continent of Africa.

Bauchi State Trade Facilitation Centre has already commenced operations in earnest and by Thursday 2nd November, 2023 a special stakeholders forum (comprising of various MDA’s and private sector bodies) was inaugurated by the Bauchi State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Investment Hon. Mahmood Babamaji with a view to facilitate inter-agency collaboration towards meeting the strategic objectives of Trade Facilitation delivery in Bauchi State in line with the overall aspirations of the Word Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) entered into by the entire World Trade Organization Member Nations after the WTO inter-ministerial conference that took place in Bali, Indonesia in 2013

The primary goal of trade facilitation is to help make trade across borders (imports and exports) faster, cheaper, and more predictable, while ensuring its safety and security. It involves simplifying and harmonizing formalities, procedures, and the exchange of information and documents among supply chain partners. Trade facilitation encompasses not only the physical movement of goods but also the associated information flows and the involvement of governmental agencies and commercial entities in the trade process.