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UNDP/ESCAP ARTNeT Consultative Meeting on
Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration
Date
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17-18 August 2006 |
Venue
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Bangkok, Thailand |
Organizer
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UNESCAP Trade and Investment Division
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Objective
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To report research findings of the regional research team on
trade facilitation and regional trade agreements to policy
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Documentation
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Opening Remarks
 Mr. Xuan Zengpei, Director, Trade and Investment Division,
UNESCAP
Summary
and Recommendations
Presentation:
Session 1: WTO Trade Facilitation (TF) Negotiations and Beyond
WTO Negotiations on Trade FacilitationOverview and
State-of-Play
H.E. Noor Muhamad Yacob, Ambassador of Malaysia
to the WTO
An exploration of the need for and cost of selected
trade facilitation measures in Asia-Pacific in the context
of the WTO negotiations
Yann Duval, Trade Policy Section,
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Session 2: Customs Valuation in Asia-Pacific: Problems and
Solutions
ARTNeT Research Findings on customs Valuation in:
Nepal
Pushpa Raj Rajkarnikar, IPRAD, Nepal
India
Sachin Chaturvedi, RIS, India
Customs Valuation in Fiji
Parmod Achary, General Manager, Development
Services, Fiji Islands Revenue and Custom
Authority, Fiji
Customs Valuation in Asia-Pacific: Problems
and Solutions
A Private Sector perspective
Lundaa odonchimeng, Assistant to Chairman, MNCCI,
Mongolia
WCO's tools and perspectives on improving customs
valuation in Asia-Pacific
Takashe Matsumoto, Director, WCO Regional Office
An ASEAN perspective
Florian Alburo, ARTNeT Advisor on Trade Facilitation,
University of the Philippines
Session 3: Trade Logistics Services Liberalization: Does It
Faciliate Trade?
Trade Logistics Services Liberalization in China
Zerui Yang, CIIS, China
Trade Logistics Liberalization in Australia: A case
study of the Seafood Industry
Dariel De Sousa, WTO and IIBEL, University of
Adelaide, Australia
A Private Sector View
Parakrama Dissanayake, Chairman, Aitken Spence
Shipping, Sri Lanka
Nepalese Experience in Liberalization of Trade
Logistics Services
Purushottam Ojha, Joint Secretary, Office of Prime
Minister and Council of Ministers, Nepal
Session 4: Trade Facilitation and regional Integration - I
Monitoring Trade Performance of RTAs:
Preliminary Results
John Gilbert, Utah State University, USA
Session 5: Trade Facilitation and regional Integration - II
Preferential Trade Agreements in Asia-Pacific:
Overview and Issues
Mia Mikic, Trade Policy Section,
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration in the Pacific
Biman Chand Prasad, University of South Pacific, Fiji
Impact of ASEAN Trade Facilitation Initiatives on Members'
Bilateral Trade Flows
Dedi Budhiman Hakim, Bogor Agricultural University,
Indonesia
Utilization Rates of PTAs and Rules of Origin
William James, Nathan Associates, Indonesia
A Private Sector Perspective
Nilsuwan Leelarasamee, Non-Tariff Barriers and Rules
of Origin Committee (ASEAN), The Federation of
Thai Industries
Tariff Reduction or Elimination: The Benefit via
Rules of Origin
Nilsuwan Leelarasamee, The Federation of Thai Industries
Perspective from a landlocked country
Sirisamphanh Vorachith, Deputy Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Industry on Trade, Lao PDR
Country statements:
Session 1: Cambodia
- Penn Sovicheat
China
- Ding Wei
India
- Himanshu Gupta
Pakistan
- Nasim Qureshi
Sri
Lanka - V.S. Sidath Kumar
Session 2: Nepal
- Bal Govinda Bista
Russia
- Mikhali K. Antipov
Session 3: Bhutan
- Tandin Tshering
Viet
Nam - Nguyen Thi Nhieu
Session 5: Indonesia
- Djunaedi
Background papers for the meeting are available at the ARTNeT Virtual Meeting room
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Participants
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Programme
Information note for participants
List of participants |
Contact
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Mr. Yann Duval
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: duvaly@un.org |
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Last updated: 2 October 2006 |
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