Topic: 2024-Supply Chain Stability
Country: Tunisia
Delegate Name: Devon Willis
It is the honor of the Tunisian Republic to speak on the issue of supply chain stability. Following the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged sickness through all parts of the world in some shape or form during the early years of this new decade, some countries like the major Western powers and large economies in the east (China, Japan, India) have been able to bounce their economies back to normal. Smaller, and less fortunate countries are still facing many of the financial hardships and other large-scale effects of the pandemic. These setbacks have hurt their economies severely in many capacities, such as the supply shortages across the world, which have led to the halting of stable and consistent supply chains and forced countries into attempting to catch back up to world leaders in various ways. One major concept that will be put forth at this conference is the education of companies on sustainable, and progressive supply chain practices. These concepts target the way we are able to acquire materials, the way our nations produce products, and the way we ship our products.
The Republic of Tunisia has always been a dependable ally that prides itself on consistent exporting with major world superpowers, recently however we have struggled in that capacity following the pandemic, we had our mechanical and electronic exports fall from our highest in history sitting at an export value of 21.4 million Tunisian dollars in 2020 fall all the way down to only a 9.85 million Tunisian dollar export value in 2022. These effects have been rippled throughout various countries in a similar fashion to our own. Another big hit our country took was to one of our other mechanical-based exports which are chemicals used in manufacturing, these exports have been affected by the labor shortages and a multitude of supply chain disasters post-2020, meaning our exports to countries like the U.S.A. and India were lessened, not only affecting our economy but theirs. Since then we have begun to improve our supply chain stability but have still had to face the effects, no longer having the U.S. as one of our major export recipients for chemicals lessens our potential economic ceiling.
The Tunisian Republic suggests that we begin to implement programs for nations to help their companies be able to find more sustainable routes of production, shipping, and more communication between countries on ways for these companies to live up to our modern expectations of beginning to become a greener society, reducing waste and limiting obstacles in the production of exports should be two of the main focuses, along with attempting to reconnect our allies before COVID-19, Western Powers and the Middle East need to come together as economic superpowers to help push forward these ideals.
As the Republic of Tunisia, we are looking forward to making progress as a committee we should put forward the building of sustainable, and healthy supply chain education programs to help less economically dominant countries able to catch back up to where they once were before the Covid-19 pandemic, we also want these countries to be able to work alongside well-developed countries that can both own benefit from helping grow the global economy. We ask fellow U.N. members to assist us in our goal to help all countries move forward and progress to a new era of stability within our organization, protecting ourselves from future threats, and issues, and preparing ourselves for our ever-changing landscape within the world.
Sources: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1190780/value-of-exports-from-tunisia-by-sector/
https://glica.org/glimun/committees/supply-chain-stability/
https://www.countryreports.org/country/Tunisia/imports-exports.htm
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/TUN/Year/2019/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/all/Product/28-38_Chemicals
