accessions

Seminar on WTO Accessions Rules

Geneva, Switzerland

5 February 11:00–12:30

Trade in Agriculture
Room E

Live Webcasting

8 February 9:30–10:45

TRIPS
Room E

Live Webcasting

Monday – 4 February 2019

9:00-9:30

Badge pickup at WTO Welcome Pavillion

9:30–10:00

Opening Remarks

  • Maika Oshikawa, WTO

10:00 – 10:45

Seminar Overview

ITTC, Acc. Division, WTO

Break

11:00–12:30

WTO Legal Framework

Overview and Core Disciplines

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Accession process

Process Core documents

Break

16:00–17:30

Accession process

Acquis Negotiations on rules

18:00–20:00

Welcome reception

Gallery (new building)

Tuesday – 5 February 2019

9:00 -10:00

Informal Group of Acceding Governments
Room E

10:00–10:45

Review exercise – Kahoot!

Break

11:00–12:30

Trade in Agriculture
Room E

Live Webcasting
Lunch

14:00–15:45

SPS

Commentator:

  • Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan
Break

16:00–17:30

WTO Accession and Trade Policy Uncertainty

Wednesday – 6 February 2019

9:00-9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–10:45

Framework for Making & Enforcing Economic Policies

Break

11:00–12:30

TBT

Commentator:

  • Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan
Lunch

14:00–15:45

Trade Facilitation & Transit

Commentator:

  • Muzammil Shinwari, Afghanistan
Break

16:30 – 18:00

Panel session
Room D

20th Anniversary of Latvia's Accession to the WTO

18:00–20:00

Evening reception hosted by the Government of Latvia

Atrium (CWR)

Thursday – 7 February 2019

9:00-9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–10:45

TRIMs

Break

11:00–12:30

Industrial Subsidies & Free Zones

Presentation on free zones

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Roundtable Discussion

Regional Trade Agreements
Room E

Speakers:

  • Rohini Acharya, TPR Division
    Presentation
  • Geremew Ayalew, Ethiopia
  • Dmitri Fomchenko, Belarus
Break

16:00–17:30

Inaugural Session

Accessions Negotiators Network
Room E

Chair:

  • Saleh Al-Husseini, Saudi Arabia

Speakers:

  • Representatives of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, China, Latvia and Bulgaria

Friday – 8 February 2019

9:00-9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–10:45

TRIPS
Room E

Live Webcasting
Break

11:00–12:30

Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in Acceding Governments
Room E

Moderator:
  • Juneyoung Lee, WTO

Speakers:

Lunch

14:00–15:45

WTO Accession and the Role of the Business Community

Speaker:
Break

16:00–17:30

Challenges and Opportunities for LDCs in Accession Negotiations

Speaker:
  • Muzammil Shinwari, Afghanistan

Commentator:

  • Nagib Hamim, Yemen

Monday – 11 February

9:00–9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–11:00

Treaty Interpretation and Accession Commitments in the WTO Legal Framework

Break

11:00–12:00

Accession Commitments in WTO Dispute Settlement

12:00–12:30

Remarks

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Government Procurement

Break

16:00–17:30

Bilateral Meetings with Technical Experts/WTO Secretariat

Tuesday – 12 February

9:00–9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–11:00

Import Regulation

Customs fees and other duties and charges

  • Darlan Marti, WTO
Break

11:15–12:30

Import Regulation

Customs valuation (and rules of origin)

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Transparency

Break

16:00–17:30

Presentation by WTO Article XII Group

Speaker:

  • Carlos Barletta, Panama

Wednesday – 13 February

9:00–9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–11:00

Quantitative Restrictions

Import/export quotas, licensing

Break

11:15–12:30

Import Regulation

Internal taxation

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Economic Policies

Privatization, State trading, pricing and competition policy

Speaker:

  • Neil Beck, USTR

Commentator:

  • Carlos Gimeno, EC
Break

16:00–17:30

Internal Coordination Processes in the EU and the US

Speakers:

  • Neil Beck, USTR
  • Carlos Gimeno, EC

Thursday – 14 February

9:00–9:30

Review exercise – Kahoot!

9:30–11:00

Trade in Services

Break

11:15–12:30

Investment and Trade in Services

Speaker:

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Trading Rights

Speaker:

Commentators:

  • Neil Beck, USTR
  • Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan
Break

16:00–17:30

WTO Activities in the lead-up to MC12
Room F

  • Amb. Josι Luνs Cancela Gσmez, Uruguay
    Presentation
  • Amb. Juan Carlos Gonzαlez, Colombia
    Presentation
  • Mr. Katsuro Nagai, Japan

Friday – 15 February

10:00 – 13:00

11th Meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Belarus
Room W

Lunch

14:00–15:45

Best practices in the accession Q&A process

  • Cecilia Klein, consultant

Commentator:

  • Hamdo Tinjak, Chief Negotiator, Bosnia & Herzegovina

15:45–16:00

Evaluation & Feedback

Certificates & Closing

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