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This report examines how initiatives to help LDCs trade more effectively are implemented in seven key markets: Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States. It includes country and product coverage; limitations on the schemes; some estimates of their value, including the potential for improvements; and possible effects of concluding the WTO’s decade-old Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. Finally, some improvements to the schemes are outlined so that these work towards better contribution of trade to the economic development of the LDCs.