The Joint UNRCs Approach was agreed in Beirut in January 2010 by the Executive Secretaries of the five Regional Commissions and was subsequently endorsed by all five Regional Commissions. The Approach was designed to enable the UNRCs to present a joint view on key Trade Facilitation issues – particularly from the regional and interregional level, and to enhance the effectiveness of technical assistance and capacity building initiatives. This is particularly important in the context of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.
A key undertaking under this approach is the Global Surveys on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade.
In addition, the Joint Capacity Building Package includes the following components (information and capacity building resources provided by respective Regional Commissions).
A key undertaking under this approach is the Global Surveys on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade.
In addition, the Joint Capacity Building Package includes the following components (information and capacity building resources provided by respective Regional Commissions).
- Trade facilitation and Border Facilitation
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This page contains various information materials on trade facilitation issues in general.
ECA- Towards a Continental Free Trade area in Africa: A CGE Modelling Assessment with a focus on Agriculture
- Deepening Regional Integration in Africa: A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment of the Establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area followed by a Continental Customs Union
- Assessing Regional Integration in Africa: African Union African Development Bank Economic Commission for Africa Enhancing Intra-African Trade
- Assessing Regional Integration in Africa: Towards an African Continental Free Trade Area
ECLAC
UNECE- “Trade facilitation implementation guide”
- Joint OSCE-UNECE Handbook of best practices at border crossings ENG RUS
- Compilation of good customs practices (in response to a Russian business request)
ESCAP
- Trade Facilitation Committees/Groups
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This page contains information materials devoted to coordination and consultations between governmental agencies and private sector and also between various governmental bodies on a national level on various issues relating to trade facilitation.
UNECE- Recommendation on establishing TF committees (recommendation No. 4)
- Repository of TF bodies and their contact information
- Repository of experiences of national multi-agency TF groups
ESCAP
- Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Data harmonization (DH)
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This page describes processes to be followed to analyse business processes and movements of goods, relating documents and of information flows as a pre-requisite for simplifying procedures, documents and information requirements leading to data harmonization on a national and on trans-boundary levels.
UNECE
ESCAP
- Single Window (SW)
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This page contains recommendations, guides, studies and examples of countries’s experiences on introducing and using mechanism of single window in international trade.
UNECE- set of recommendations relating to establishing single window (UN/CEFACT recommendation No. 33),
- data harmonization for single window (UN/CEFACT recommendation No. 34),
- legal infrastructure for single window (UN/CEFACT recommendation No. 35),
- UNECE repository of SW experiences
ESCAP- Guide for the Design of Aligned Trade Forms for Paperless Trade
- Electronic Single Window Legal Issues: A Capacity-Building Guide
- Single Window Planing and Implementation Guide
- Single Window Implementation Toolkit
ESCWA- Training workshop on establishing SW in the ESCWA region, Beirut, March 2011
- ESCWA study on establishing single window (in English and Arabic)
- Global Supply Chains (UNDA 7th tranche)
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Global Trade Facilitation Forums
Global Studies- Road map to information requirements in supply chains
- Trends for collaboration in international trade: building a common Single Window Environment (ECE/TRADE/411)
Regional Studies- ECE: UNECE study on global supply and logistics chains at CIS region
- ECLAC: IItercambio de información en las cadenas de suministro internacionales -El caso de la cadena de suministro de flor fresca cortada colombiana para la exportación / Exchange of information in international supply chains - The case of the Colombian fresh cut flowers for export supply chain
- ESCAP: Study on Regional Arrangements for Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific
ESCWA: Enhancing Information Exchange for Intra Arab Agricultural & Food Trade
Reginal Workshops- ECE
10-13 June 2013, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Timetable for the TFIG and Global Supply Chains Regional Training Workshop
10-11 October 2013, Minsk, Belarus - Programme - ECLAC: TFIG Workshop Agenda
- ESCAP: Capacity Building Workshop on Facilitating Cross-border Paperless Supply Chain, 10-11 July 2013, Bangkok, Thailand
- ESCWA, 13-16 May 2013, Aqaba, Jordan; TFIG Workshop Agenda
- Experience and Information Sharing Networks
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- UNNExT Group
- Supply Chains and Information Requirements Group
- e-Learning platform on trade facilitation (Trade facilitation implementation guide)
- Education on Standardization
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UNECE
- recommendation on education on standardization
- model educational programme (ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2012/6 - ENG FRE RUS)