Transcript TRADE Bringing Practical Tools To Trade Development and Integration In Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

TRADE
Bringing Practical Tools
To Trade Development and Integration
In Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Committee on Trade
Aid For Trade Activities
Support trade development by conducting
studies on procedural and regulatory barriers to
trade
Help UNECE members, particularly countries in
transition, better understand and use UNECE
recommendations, norms and tools
Studies on
Regulatory and Procedural
Barriers to Trade
Based on a comprehensive methodology
and Engagement with stakeholders from
government and private sector
Assessments of Belarus
and Kazakhstan completed
Assessment of
Tajikistan underway
UNECE Studies on
Regulatory and Procedural
Barriers to Trade
• Seek to support export competitiveness
in transition economies.
• Evaluate business processes and
regulatory activities underpinning the
movement of goods across the
international trade supply chain
• In consultation with national
stakeholders
• Propose immediate and long-term action-oriented
recommendations.
Core areas
1. Overland transport infrastructure
2. Logistical services
3. Customs clearance
4. Other border control agencies
The Analytical framework
A Three Pronged Approach
Transport
infrastructure
Facilitating
Trade
Flows
Standards
Development
To reduce the cost of trade (in time and money)
Trade Facilitation
UNECE Buy-Ship-Pay Model
BUY
Prepare
for
Export
Commercial
Procedures
Export
Transport
Procedures
SHIP
Transport
Regulatory
Procedures
PAY
Prepare
for
Import
Import
Financial
Procedures
Trade Facilitation
General Recommendations
1. Consider establishing an inter-agency
risk management committee
2. Consider establishing a trade facilitation
forum encompassing all relevant ministries
and agencies as well as private sector
representatives
Results
Overland Transport
Infrastructure
A number of bottlenecks in railroads:
1. Lack of adequate infrastructure
facilities
2. The slow pace of the transport sector’s
liberalization effort
3. The lack of proper legislation and
equipment for curbing cargo theft
Results: Customs
Clearance & Documentary
Requirements
The over-arching need
To reduce documentary requirements
3 steps to reducing documentary requirements
1. Align trade documents with international standards.
2. Analyse and simplify all trade-related procedures
3. After undertaking these steps the government should
proceed to modernize its management information
system
Results
At the Border Controls
Better risk management through
more efficient and effective procedures
Standardization and
quality assurance
Results
Metrology
Outstanding needs
1. Further harmonization of the
metrological system with
international requirements.
2. Develop the capacities of
calibration laboratories
Results
Market surveillance
 Improve procedures for fighting
counterfeit goods
 Evaluate the need for a national
notification system for
hazardous goods
Follow up
Support through UN Development Account
- Aid for Trade for SPECA: updated project matrices
- A Regional Consultant will help Governments to
prioritize 1 – 2 projects for the implementation of the
Recommendations made in UNECE Studies
- A Regional workshop with donors to present
bankable projects from SPECA countries in the
autumn of 2013
Thank You
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