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The 7th Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF) will take place in Wuhan, China on 20-21 October. The APTFF 2015 is organized by ESCAP, ADB and China International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC), with support of multiple ministries and agencies in charge of trade, trade facilitation, logistics and foreign affairs in China. Substantial support will also come from China’s Hubei provincial and Wuhan municipality governments. A number of relevant events will be organized during 19-23 October 2015.

Under the theme “Deepening regional integration through Trade facilitation”, APTFF 2015 aims to examine the key role of trade facilitation measures for deepening regional and global linkages and promote regional cooperation as a means of address regional and national trade facilitation challenges. The forum will look at key emerging issues in trade facilitation, such as the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), efforts towards Asia-Pacific regional agreement on facilitation of cross-border paperless trade, cross-border e-commerce, trade facilitation for LLDCs, LDCs, Small Island Developing States (SIDs), SMEs and agricultural sector, will be discussed in depth at the Forum. 

The APTFF has been co-organized by ESCAP and ADB in cooperation with a growing number of partner organizations since 2009. The forum now attracts two to three hundreds participants from 30 countries each year. As such, it has become the main open regional platform to exchange information, experiences and practices for trade facilitation in Asia-Pacific, identify priority areas for regional cooperation and integration, and learn about new tools and services which can increase the efficiency of cross-border transactions.

Related documents

Programme

  1. Final Programme for APTFF 2015

Presentations

  1. Session 1: Overcoming High Trade Costs of Asia-Pacific Developing Economies - Prioritizing Trade Facilitation Measures
  2. Session 2: Enhancing regional connectivity through trade and transport corridor facilitation 
  3. Session 3: Re-thinking Trade Facilitation Strategies for More Inclusive Regional Integration: Focusing on SMEs and the Agricultural Sector 
  4. Session 4: Developing regional cross-border e-commerce through paperless trade
  5. Session 5: cross Subregional experience sharing: regional integration through trade facilitation

Documents

  1. List of Participants
  2. APTFF 2015 Summary and Proceedings and Discussions

 

Side events

Trade Facilitation Performance and Monitoring Workshop

APTFF Capacity Building Workshop on Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures of the WTO TFA

Workshop on Electronic Exchange of SPS Certificates for Better Trade Control and Facilitation

Regional Organizations Cooperation Mechanism for Trade Facilitation (ROC-TF) Annual Meeting 2015

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