Country Stakeholder Perspectives

Virginia Cram-MartosDirector UNECE Trade and Timber Division

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnited Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACT

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Countries need interoperable, intersectoral standards

Business

GovernmentMinistries of

trade, transport, etc.

Customs, Border Control Agencies, etc.

Big companiesand associations in various sectors

Exporters, importers,

freight forwarders,software companies

banks, SMEs etc.

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Countries need Trade Facilitation

TRADE FACILITATION“Simplification and

standardisation of procedures and associated

information flows required to move goods internationally from buyer to seller and to pass payment in the other

direction”

Customs Transport

Regulatory agencies

Freight Forwarders

Finance Customs brokers

InsuranceImporters

Exporters

……..

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To Increase efficiency & competitiveness

Government

Business

Ministries oftrade,

transport, etc.

Customs, Border Control Agencies, etc.

Big companiesand associations in various sectors

Exporters, importers,

freight forwarders,software companies

banks, SMEs etc.

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The most requested priority:

The Development of eBusiness Standards

Including:

e-Invoicing (6 countries)

e-Procurement and e-Tendering (5 countries)

e-Customs, (1 country)

e-Phytosanitary certificates (1 country)

e-Transport (1 country)

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The 2nd most requested priority:

Implementation (6 Countries)As well as other, related priorities & opportunities:

• Developing more case studies (1p+3o)

• Increasing recognition, use and reference by national, regional & international organizations (2p)

• Providing more implementation assistance (3o)

• Increasing involvement by business and government (2p+1o)

• Trade facilitation (1p)

• WTO agreement implementation (1p)

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Other Priorities requested by 3 or 4 Countries

Single Windows and related recommendations

Cooperation with UBL and migration from UBL

Standardization & Standards supporting interoperability

UN electronic Trade Documents (UNeDocs)

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Priorities mentioned by 2 Countries

Buy-Ship-Pay (entire supply chain)

Establishment of Registry/Global trade data directory

Policy Guidance from Governments to CEFACT

Increased transparency, in particular more accessible information

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Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 4 to 8 countries

• Accelerate production of outputs (8)

• Preparing more information materials: Case studies, implementation examples, non-technical information (4)

• Clarifying UNeDocs next steps (4)

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Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 3 countries

• Improving Secretariat support:

- For UN/CEFACT- For liaison- For support to national «Pro» organizations

• Looking at backward compatibility issues and the timing of releases

• Improving promotion and the website

• Providing more assistance to countries for implementation

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Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 2 countries

Making more information available in Russian

Increasing use/referencing by the European Commission

Improving public sector input and participation

Improving transparency

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Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 1 country

Expanding the work to include other standards based on the core components technical specification

Implementing IPR Task Team Report Recommendations

Establishing a monitoring group to review project requests

Implementing the electronic Business, Government and Trade (eBGT) project

Making better use of current participants to promote UN/CEFACT recommendations

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• With other Standards Development Organizations: through the e-business MoU and, in particular, with ISO TC154, OASIS (its UBL group) and ISO 20022.

• With WCO: by reinforcing their participation and the MoU between UNECE and WCO

• With WTO: by reinforcing UN/CEFACT’s input and supporting any eventual agreement on trade facilitation

• With other international organizations: in the Global Facilitation Partnership for Trade and Transport with the World Bank, WCO, UNCTAD, ICC and UNIDO

• With other UN regional commissions

UN/CEFACT Collaboration

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Government

Business

UN/CEFACT = Government and Business

Working Together

UN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.