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Launch of the Cross-Border Paperless Trade Toolkit


Hybrid event (via Zoom or in Room S2 of the WTO)
30/06/2022 - 14.00-15.00 CEST
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Using electronic documents and transactions can speed up and increase trade. Electronic messages can eliminate the need to enter data into a computer manually at each supply chain checkpoint and can provide opportunities for the potential reuse of data.

While the benefits of trade digitisation are evident, its implementation may be challenging as policy decisions require legal and technical action to translate into operational tools such as cross-border paperless trade systems and national single windows. So far, limited guidance is available on these complex matters.

The Cross-Border Paperless Trade toolkit is the result of a collaboration between ESCAP, UNCITRAL and the WTO. Building on existing tools developed by ESCAP, UNCITRAL and EIF, it aims at raising awareness of the technical and legal tools to be called upon to adopt cross-border paperless trade systems and national single windows.


Programme

Moderator

Emmanuelle Ganne

Senior Analyst, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO

OPENING - 14:00-14:05

Ms. Anabel González

Deputy Director-General, WTO

PRESENTATION OF THE CROSS-BORDER PAPERLESS TRADE TOOLKIT - 14:05-14:15

Ms. Emmanuelle Ganne

Senior Analyst, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO
Presentation

PRESENTATION OF THE ESCAP CROSS-BORDER PAPERLESS TRADE READINESS ASSESSMENT GUIDES AND CHECKLISTS - 14:15-14:25

Mr. Yann Duval

Chief, Trade Policy and Facilitation Section, ESCAP
Presentation

PANEL DISCUSSION - 14:25-14:55

Moderator

Luca Castellani

Legal Officer, UNCITRAL

Mr. Allan C. Geronimo

Deputy Commissioner, Management Information Systems and Technology Group (MISTG), Bureau of Customs, the Philippines

Mr. Simon Hess

Head, Monitoring and Evaluation, Enhanced Integrated Framework

Ms. Tsetsegmaa Oyunsukh

Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the WTO

Ms. Cindy Rayo

General Director of International Trade for Services and Investment, Ministry of Economic Affairs (Secretaria de Economia) of Mexico

CLOSING REMARKS - 14:55-15:00

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