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Bringing Practical ToolsTo 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
Based on a comprehensive methodologyand Engagement with stakeholders from government and private sector
Assessments of Belarus and Kazakhstan completed
Assessment of Tajikistan underway
Studies on Regulatory and Procedural Barriers to Trade
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 frameworkA Three Pronged Approach
Transport infrastructure
Standards Development
Facilitating Trade Flows
To reduce the cost of trade (in time and money)
Trade Facilitation UNECE Buy-Ship-Pay Model
Prepare for
ExportExport Transport Import
SHIPBUY PAY
Prepare for
Import
Commercial Procedures
Transport Procedures
Regulatory Procedures
Financial Procedures
Trade FacilitationGeneral 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
ResultsOverland 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
Outstanding needs
1. Further harmonization of the metrological system with international requirements.
2. Develop the capacities of calibration laboratories
ResultsMetrology
ResultsMarket 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