GFP Meeting: Oct 7-8 Regional approaches to Trade and Transport Facilitation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that the next meeting of the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP) will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 7-8 of October, 2010. It will be jointly organized in partnership with the UNESCAP and the Asian Development Bank. The meeting will be held back-to-back with various other trade facilitation events including the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF) 2010.

The theme of our GFP bi-annual meeting will be “Regional approaches to Trade and Transport Facilitation”. The meeting will thus explore regional integration perspectives in order to raise awareness of the needs at the regional level. There will also be a chance to discuss trade and transport facilitation issues with experts from different organizations as well as the role of private sector and areas of opportunities in participating in the process. Available tools and possible assistance from GFP’s International Governmental Organizations core partners will also be presented. And finally, the meeting will provide practical examples of successful implementation of TF measures.

We hope that this meeting will attract a larger number of participants from both the public and the private sector.

A preliminary draft agenda is attached.

 

To register to the meeting, please use the registration link below:

http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/Finance/register.nsf/gFPRegister?OpenForm

 

Location

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Participants

All GFP Partners. Attendance is by invitation only. 

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Event date

from Oct 07, 2010 to Oct 08, 2010 

Topics

A Business Prospective on Capacity Building for Trade Facilitation ,
Admission of electronic documents ,
Air Transport and Airport Operations ,
Aligned Trade Documents ,
Bilateral and regional transit agreements ,
Border Agency Modernization ,
Border performance monitoring systems ,
Building TTF Partnerships ,
Cargo and vehicle tracking ,
Commercial trade practices ,
Control on animal and animal products ,
Customs audit based controls ,
Customs Issues ,
Customs modernisation ,
Customs procedures ,
Customs valuation ,
Dangerous goods ,
Economic Development and Trade Facilitation ,
Economic importance of transit for destination and transit countries ,
Efficiency of transport intermediaries ,
Electronic commerce and business ,
Electronic standards/EDI ,
E-signature and certification authorities ,
Facilitation and supply chain management ,
Free trade agreements ,
Harmonized System ,
Information technology for Customs ,
Inland Water Transport ,
Insurance ,
Integrated border management ,
Integrity within Customs ,
Joint border posts ,
Landlocked countries access : corridor arrangements ,
Maritime Transport and Port Operations ,
Market access ,
Measuring the economic impact of trade facilitation ,
Movement of persons ,
Multilateral trade negotiations ,
Multimodal transport ,
Other Trade Facilitation Aspects ,
Paperless trade ,
Payments ,
Phytosanitary control ,
Public Policies in Freight Transport Management ,
Public-private partnerships ,
Rail Transport ,
Regional Partnerships ,
Regional transport integration ,
Revised Kyoto Convention ,
Risk assessment methods ,
Rules of origin ,
Security and facilitation of the international trade supply chain ,
Single window environment ,
Standards and Conformity Assessment ,
Streamlining and harmonization ,
Technology platforms ,
The problems of landlocked countries ,
Trade Facilitation and competitiveness ,
Trade Facilitation and SME development ,
Trade facilitation audits ,
Trade Facilitation for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) ,
Trade Facilitation through Security ,
Trade facilitation, income distribution and poverty reduction ,
Trade Finance ,
Trade Liberalization and Facilitation ,
Trade logistics and developing countries ,
Trade Logistics and Facilitation ,
Trade Logistics practical measures ,
Trade logistics' statistics ,
Trade Policies and Non-Tariff Barriers ,
Transit ,
Transit facilitation and logistics ,
Transit guarantee systems ,
Transport Operations ,
Trip permits ,
TTF performance measurement ,
TTF promotion ,
Use of ICT for Facilitation ,
Vehicle standards ,
Waste products ,
WCO Columbus Program ,
WTO Trade Facilitation Negotiations  

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