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Delivering on the WTO Round: A High-level
Government-Business Dialogue for Development
Date
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4-6 October 2005 |
Venue
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Macao, China |
Organizers
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UNESCAP Trade and Investment Division
International Trade Centre
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Objective
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To improve national decision-making of policy makers on trade issues. |
Documentation
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Opening statement
 Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary General, United Nations
and Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
Working lunch addresses
• Mr. Victor Fung, Li & Fung (Trading), Ltd.
• Mr. Suthad Setboonsarng, PriceWaterhouseCooper,
Bangkok, Thailand
Closing statement
H.E. Thomas Aquino, Senior Undersecretary, Department
of Trade and Industry, Philippines
Concept note
Background references
Presentations:
Session 1: Panel - "Delivering Doha Development Goals:
Multi-stakeholders' Perspectives from Asia-Pacific"
The DOHA Development Agenda and An Enhanced Global
Partnership for Development: Promise or Reality?
Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary General, United Nations
and Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
Harnessing Trade for Global Poverty Reduction
Bernard Hoekman, Research Manager, Development
Research Group, The World Bank
Session 2: Multilateralizing Regionalism: Towards An Integrated and
Outward-oriented Asia-Pacific Economic Area
Integrating the Asia-Pacific Economic Area for An
Enhanced Global Partnership
Tiziana Bonapace, Chief, Trade Policy Section and
Mia Mikic, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade and Investment
Division, UNESCAP
Multilateralizing Regionalism: Towards An Integrated and
Outward-oriented Asia-Pacific Economic Area
Piyanuch Malakul Na Ayuthya, Committee on Trade
Rules and International Trade, Thailand
Session 3: Liberalization in Agricultural Trade
Liberalisation in Agricultural Trade: Issues and Concerns
Mr. Biswajit Dhar, Professor and Head, Centre for WTO
Studies Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Indian Institute
of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
Session 4: Implications of the NAMA Negotiations for the Asia-Pacific
Region
Implications of the Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA)
Negotiations
Jose Antonio Buencamino, Special Trade Representative,
Permanent Mission to the WTO, Philippines
Implications of the NAMA Negotiations for the Asia-Pacific
Region
Ms Jenny Yip, Assistant Director-General of Trade and
Industry, Hong Kong, China
Implications of the NAMA Negotiations for the Asia-Pacific
Region
Manab Majumdar, Team Leader, WTO and FTA Division,
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Session 5: Anyone wearing new clothes?
Textiles
and Clothing Challenges for Asia: Is there anyone
wearing new clothes?
Matthias Knappe, Senior Market Development
Officer, ITC
Cambodia’s Textile and Garment Export
Vong Bunintreavuth, Deputy Director, Investment and
Cooperation Department, Ministry of Economy and
Finance, Kingdom of Cambodia
Sustaining Nepalese Garment Industry after Quota
Abolition
Bijendra Man Shakya, Garment Association - Nepal (GAN)
Session 8: Trade Facilitation
Sri Lanka Trade Facilitation Progress
And The Way
Forward
Mahinda Parakrama Dissanayake, Aitken Spense
Shipping, Ltd., Sri Lanka
Session 9: Business Advocacy in Trade Policy: Representing
Asia-Pacific Interests in Multilateral Negotiations
Response to Call for Business Advocacy
Jason T. Lao, Director III, Department of Trade
and Industry, Philippines
Papers:
Session 3: Liberalization in Agricultural Trade
Liberalization in Agricultural Trade: Issues and Concerns
Biswajit Dhar, Head of the Centre for WTO Studies,
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
Session 6: Services: Importance of Further Liberalization for
Business and Economic Development in the Region
Services: Importance of Further Liberalization for
Business and Economic Development in the Region
Christopher Findlay, Asia Pacific School of Economics
and Government, Australian National University, Australia
Session 7: Trade Adjustment and Business Development Financing
Trade Adjustment and Business Development Financing
Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Senior Economist and
Representative to the WTO, International Monetary Fund
Session 9: Business Advocacy in Trade Policy: Representing
Asia-Pacific Interests in Multilateral Negotiations
Business Advocacy in Trade Policy: Representing
Asia-Pacific Interests in Multilateral Negotiations
Peter Naray, Consultant, ITC
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Participants
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Information note for participants
Programme
List of participants |
Contact
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Ms. Mia Mikic
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: mikic@un.org |
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Last updated: 20 October 2005 |
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