2014

To discuss and report on activities of the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT) in 2013/14 and discuss work programme for 2014/15.

The event is organized back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014.

To review the database on trade procedures developed by ESCAP and identify room for further improvement.

The event is organized back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014.

The meeting is part of a larger project aiming to develop a guide for paperless trade facilitation for SMEs and build national governments’ capacity to implement paperless systems for cross-border trade and transport facilitation. It will take place on 23 September 2014 at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand as a back-to-back event of the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014.

United Nations ESCAP is organizing the meeting of UNNExT Advisory Group on Cross-border Paperless Trade Facilitation on 23 September 2014 in Bangkok, back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF) 2014. The meeting will be attended by members of the UNNExT Advisory Group on Cross-border Paperless Trade Facilitation, in order to provide advice to the ESCAP secretariat on legal and technical issues related to facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in the region.

The ROC-TF Annual meeting this year, to be held in Bangkok on 23 September, will again provide an opportunity for participating organizations to share information, discuss respective trade facilitation programmes and identify collaboration opportunities and synergies.

This event is organized back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014.

To exchange information and promote regional cooperation on transit facilitation.

This event is organized back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014. For more information, please visit: http://www.gfptt.org

The workshop serves as an important step to establish national sustainable Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanism (TTFMM) in Bangladesh. In particular, it aims to equip the relevant government officials, industry and private sector with adequate knowledge on TTFMM so it can be implemented afterwards.

To identify issues of cross-border paperless trade, share lessons from regional experiences, and discuss measures and solutions for a regional arrangement to take into account.