This requires capacity-building and trade facilitation to ensure that regulations do not become barriers to trade. To this end, with a view to reducing costs of trade for developing countries and LDCs, the WTO membership negotiated, ratified, and brought into effect the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) for trade in goods. The negotiations for the TFA were concluded at the Bali Ministerial Conference of the WTO in 2013, and the Agreement entered into force in February 2017.