Anti-Illicit Trade Expert Group

The OECD serves as a global platform for improving policymakers’ understanding of the market vulnerabilities created and exploited by illicit trade, enhancing international cooperation, and supporting practical actions to reduce and deter illicit trade. The OECD provides high-quality data, analysis, and insights into the scale, methods, and impacts of illicit trade across high-risk sectors (e.g., tobacco, pharmaceuticals, counterfeits) and regions, as well as designs and promotes standards and good practices to counter illicit trade, with the 2019 Recommendation on Enhancing Transparency in Free Trade Zones.  

• Fostering transparency and advancing the OECD’s work to enhance the evidence-basis on illicit trade 

• Supporting the OECD to enhance regulatory and enforcement responses to counterfeiting in online marketplaces 

• Supporting the effective implementation of the OECD’s Recommendation on Enhancing Transparency in Free Trade Zones  

In order to counter the global threat of illicit trade more effectively, the OECD supports a whole-of-government approach and engaging with the private sector. Business at OECD’s Anti-Illicit Trade Expert Group is committed to advancing the OECD’s global leadership and promoting the latest evidence, best practices and innovative strategies to counter illicit trade developed by the OECD’s Working Party on Countering Illicit Trade. Business at OECD’s efforts to advance the OECD’s work include innovative private-sector led projects, dynamic public-private partnerships, mutually agreed dialogues, workshops, training, and support for capacity-building initiatives. 

• OECD’s Working Party on Countering Illicit Trade 

• OECD’s Forum on Countering Illicit Trade