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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch:
Contribution
to
transport and trade facilitation issues
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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch
Sections:
Trade Facilitation
Transport
Legal and Policy
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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch
Activities:
Meetings and seminars
Research and publications
Technical cooperation projects
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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch
Activities:
Meetings and seminars
Research and publications
Technical cooperation projects
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Expert Meetings
on Trade Facilitation
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Expert and intergovernmental meetings
• Experts meetings:
– Trade Facilitation, Nov. 2002
– MT & logistics services, Sept. 2003
– Transit transport arrangements, Nov. 2004
– TF as an engine for Development, Sept. 2005
– ICT Solutions to Facilitate Trade at Border Crossings & Ports, Oct. 2006
• Intergovernmental meetings:
– Almaty Parallel Event on Trade Facilitation, Aug. 2003
– Meeting of Trade Ministers of LLDCs to facilitate their effective
participation in the Doha Round of trade negotiations,
Asunción, Paraguay, 10 August 2005
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Conference on ICT and Logistics
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Workshops on
WTO – Negotiations
on Trade Facilitation
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Port Training Programme
in Cambodia
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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch
Activities:
Meetings and seminars
Research and publications
Technical cooperation projects
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Review of
Maritime Transport
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UNCTAD
Transport Newsletter
Quarterly
Electronic distribution
Articles,
and news
about publication
and events
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Studies
e.g. on legal aspects
of international
trade
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UNCTAD’s Trade Logistics Branch
Activities:
Meetings and seminars
Research and publications
Technical cooperation projects
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Global Projects: e.g. “Capacity building in developing
countries to support their effective participation in the WTO
Negotiations Process on Trade Facilitation”
Technical Notes
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Workshops
Global Projects:
e.g. “Support to trade facilitation platforms in
developing countries”
Focus on two types of trade facilitation platforms:
facilitation bodies
single window facilities.
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Global Projects:
e.g. “Capacity Building in Trade and Transport
Facilitation for Land Locked and Transit
Developing Countries ”
Cluster-corridor approach
• Corridor stakeholders are linked by a demand
and supply relationship.
• Clusters to improve day-to-day operations
and find medium and long-term solutions.
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Networked clusters
Land Locked Country
Inland
Cluster
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Transit Country
Border
Cluster
Sea
Cluster
Corridor performance
“shareholders”
• Transport Ministry • Carriers
• Customs
• Port authorities
• Customs brokers
• Terminal operators
• Freight forwarders • Shipping lines
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Three Pilot Sites
Corridor:
Arica – La Paz
Corridor:
Bangkok - Vientiane
Corridor:
Walvis Bay - Gaborone
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Clusters versus Committees
• Committees:
– Top down government led approach.
– Emphasis on policy and regulations.
– Require cooperation of higher ranked government
and private sector representatives.
• Clusters:
– Peer to peer approach.
– Emphasis on operational solutions.
– Require information sharing and joint actions.
• Clusters may be seen as local alternative to
Committees.
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Fit in regional activities
• Synergies with institutional developments in ASEAN
and GMS agreements.
• National Transit Transport Coordinating Committees
(NTTCC) and Transit Transport Coordinating Board
(TTCB).
• National Transport Facilitation Committee (NTFC).
• National initiatives and programmes in Lao PDR and
Thailand – Viet Nam.
• Relationship with Integrated Framework activities.
• Trade and transport facilitation diagnostic.
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Global Projects:
e.g. Customs Automation
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ASYCUDA
Covers the Full Clearance Process
Transit
CUSCAR, DCI
Cargo arrival
Manifest
Transit
shed
Storage of goods
Selectivity
&
Risk Management
CUSDEC, DTI
Temporary Admission
Customs Warehouse
Temporary Export
Economic &
suspense
procedures
Inward/Outward Processing
Accounting
Transit
shed
Cargo release
Trade balance,
Data mining ...
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Declaration
Statistics
& Audit
Electronic payments
Deferred payment,
Pre-payment, Cash
Data
Consolidation
Statistical Database
Customs
Data
Extraction
Offices
ASYCUDA
Standards &
User-defined
Reports
Ad Hoc developed applications
And commercial packages
WHAT ?
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WHO ?
Reports, Drawings,
Charts, On line queries…
National Statistics agency,
Eurotrace, Intl. organizations
ASYCUDA Achievements
 Since 1982
 More than 80 countries using ASYCUDA to clear goods
 Implementation of norms and standards: WCO SAD ISO
 Customs administration capacity building
 Foundation of an international group of 100 experts
 Development of the ASYCUDA software products
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ASYCUDA World operation
15,000,000 Customs clearance operations per year:
60,000 Declarations per working-day (255d/year)
7,500 Declarations per working-hour (8h/day)
50,000,000 Database transactions per year:
Distributed on 22,000 computers
User interface in 18 languages
Impact on:
 241 billion $ [3.9%] of world imports values* (CIF)
 230 billion $ [3.7%] of world exports values* (FOB)
* Source: UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
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Integrated country projects:
e.g. Afghanistan
• Emergency Customs
Modernization and
Trade Facilitation
project
To increase Government
revenues from Customs
through: (a) better
administration and collection of
existing customs revenues;
and (b) facilitating trade and
transit to increase the customs
revenue base. Incl. ASYCUDA
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Key areas of intervention
1.
Customs Automation (ASYCUDA)
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TF Policy and Strategy Development at MoCe
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2.
3.
4.
5.
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Reform and Modernization of Goods Transport and Transit
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2.
3.
4.
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Operational Audit of TF-related MoCe depart.s &
recommendations
Setting up a National Trade Facilitation Committee
Assistance towards accession to WTO
Benchmarking Trade Facilitation costs/times
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) on TF issues
Review & improvement of key bi-, multi-lateral and regional
transit agreements
Customs Transit Regime and TIR Implementation
Reform and modernization of trucking and freight forwarding
industries
Alignment of procedures & documents on international standards
& practices
Integrated country projects:
e.g. Pakistan
• Promotion of
trade and
transport sectors
Addressing trade
and transport
facilitation measures
and its
implementation
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Cooperative work
• With all UN Regional Commissions and
other agencies such as: ITC, UNIDO,
IMO, WB, IMF;
• With intergovernmental organizations
such as WTO, WCO, OECD;
• With business sectors institutions such
as ICC, FIATA, IAPH.
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Need for Partnerships
• Partnerships can play an important role in the
effective implementation of trade and transport
facilitation measures by increasing developing
countries’ participation in global trade.
• Multilateral platforms assist in achieving this
goal:
– The UN-Trade Facilitation Cooperation Scheme;
– The Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation
and Trade (www.gfptt.org).
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Trade Logistics Branch
Division for Services Infrastructure
for Development and Trade Efficiency