trade facilitation work undertaken by unece

Trade Facilitation Work Undertaken by UNECE

Tom Butterly

Team Leader Trade Facilitation

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNECE's Work in Trade Facilitation

• UNECE region - two thirds of world trade. • Work undertaken within UN Millennium

Development Goals – poverty reduction and economic development – the development of a proper framework of

rules, norms and standards for international trade


UNECE Global and Regional Perspective

• Global level - development and maintenance of international standards

• UNECE regional level - implementation in member states esp. in transition economies

• Other regions - cooperate extensively with other UN Regional Commissions and other multinational orgs


Total Trade Transaction Approach

SellerGoods

Buyer

Payment

BuyBuy ShipShip PayPay

UNECE Strategic Action Plan For Trade Development

• Standards Development

• Implementation

• Trade Facilitation Policy

• Integration

• Promotion


UNECE Standards UN Layout Key for Trade Documents – EU SAD.

Also an ISO Standard (ISO 6422) UN/EDIFACT (also ISO 9735) UN LO CODE - codes for ports, etc (based on

ISO 3166) UNTDED – also ISO Standard 7372 30+ Recommendations Current survey (baseline)


UNECE Standards

UN/CEFACT Supply Chain Reference Model

Agricultural quality standards – approx. 100 Technical harmonization & standardization

policies Transport related standards and conventions

(Dangerous Goods, TIR, work of the ITC, etc)


New UNECE Standards ….

• Single Window

• eUNLK

• Benchmarking


Trade Facilitation and Security

• International Supply Chain Reference Model - focus on trade security

• Joint UNECE/WCO meeting on Trade Facilitation and Security - November 13-14 in Geneva

• Draft international standard for security management


Implementation - Capacity Building

Joint project on Trade Facilitation and electronic business in the Mediterranean (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the Syrian Arab Republic (ESCWA region), Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (ECA region) and Israel, Malta and Turkey (UNECE region))

Electronic Data Interchange (UN/EDIFACT) in eastern Europe


XMLXML

Exporter

Importer

PAPERPAPER

Importers Bank

EDIFACTEDIFACT

F ForwarderHTML/PDFHTML/PDF

•Electronic Signature

•Document Validation

•Electronic Post Mark

•Language switching

•National Requirements

•Time Stamping….

Digital Document Digital Document Web ServicesWeb Services

Office PCStandard user software, Internet Browser

Back-end Server

UNeDocsUNeDocsTrade & TransportTrade & Transport

DocumentsDocuments

Security, efficiency, speed,best business practice,

ICT integrationAdds

Provides specialised services Cost Recovery basis

Internet

Policy

International Forum on Trade Facilitation Papers on Trade Facilitation

Income Distribution Impact of TFCollaborative Approach to Standards Dev.Benefits of TFTF in the WTOTF Post Cancun


Co-operation and Promotion

Partnership approach with all international organisations related to trade facilitation


UN/CEFACT and the International Trade Procedures Working Group (ITPWG-

TBG15)

• Strong support for the work of UNECE through UN/CEFACT Working Groups

• ITPWG-TBG15 works to identify, simplify, harmonise and align public and private sector practices, procedures and information flows related to trade

• ITPWG also maintain existing and develop new UN CEFACT Recommendations and promote the adoption and implementation


Some of the tools available form UNECE

• UNECE Recommendations and Standards (UNLK, UN/EDIFACT, UNLOCODE, TDED, etc)

• A range of publications on trade facilitation (Compendium of trade facilitation measures, UNLK Guide, Recommendation 18, etc)

• UNeDocs – digital paper for aligned trade documents


Tools from UNECE

• Training CD on Trade Facilitation Measures for the International Supply Chain – targeted at both government and industry

• Training CD for understanding supply chain management

• Self Assessment Tool for e-business strategies for SMEs


Summary• Much work already done on trade facilitation

within UNECE and we have a significant programme of work in new areas

• Encourage a collaborative/partnership approach

• UNECE process is open to participation from trade and governments


UNECE Resources

All UNECE Recommendations, codes, standards and publications are available for free on our website at:

www.unece.org/trade

For other inquiries, please contact:

[email protected]


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