VI Meeting VUCE-Agenda-VI Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting on Foreign Trade Single Windows: Single Windows and their integration with different links of the international supply chain

VI LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN REGIONAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE SINGLE WINDOWS: SINGLE WINDOWS AND THEIR INTEGRATION WITH DIFFERENT LINKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 30 to 31, 2014 . Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre Lady Young Road, St. Ann´s.

AGENDA

THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2014

MORNING
8:00-12:30

8:30 – 9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00-9:30	OPENING CEREMONY Members of the Presidium: Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Ecmic System (SELA). Senator the Honourable Vasant Bharath - Minister of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications and Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Economy, Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Randall Karim - Director of Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications, Trinidad and Tobago. Speeches: Welcome Remarks - Mr. Randall Karim, Director of Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications, Trinidad and Tobago. Speech - Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA). Address - Senator the Honourable Vasant Bharath - Minister of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications and Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Economy, Trinidad and Tobago.
	Keynote lectures
9:30-10:00	Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation in Asia and the Pacific: Status and Lessons Learned Dr. Yann Duval, Chief of the Trade Facilitation Unit, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, (UNESCAP).
10:00-10:30	Prioritizing Technical Assistance in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Where does the Single Window Fit Rachid Benjelloun, Consultant .
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30	Theme I. B2G and B2B dimensions in Single Windows
11:00-11:45	Public-private partnership in Single Windows. Dr. Paloma Bernal Turnes, UN/CEFACT Expert.
11:45-12:15	International Trade Single Window Implementation: Observations on Data Protection and Other legal Issues. Mr. William Luddy.
12:15-12:30	General debate
12:30–14:00	Lunch -Organised by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications of Trinidad and Tobago.
AFTERNOON
14:00-15:00	Comparative study to identify best practices in the management of international trade procedures in Latin America and the Caribbean: One approach. Rafael Quintero, SELA’s Consultant.
15:00-15:15	COFFEE BREAK
15:15-18:00	Theme II. International Trade Single Windows in Latin America and the Caribbean. Achievements and challenges (1st Session)
15:15-17:30	New developments as regards Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Trade Single Window: Private sector integration Stephen Rodriguez, TTBizLink Office, Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications, Trinidad and Tobago. Experiences with the implementation of the Electronic Single Window for Exports and Logistic Operations of Panama (Integrated Single Window). Alicia Jimenez, Former Director-General of Foreign Trade Services. Panama. Achievements as regards Single Window in Chile. Ana Lucía Cáceres- Project Coordinator, SICEX, Ministry of Finance.
17:30-18:00	General debate
19:00	Welcome ceremony Organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications of Trinidad and Tobago.

FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER
MORNING
9:00-12:30

9:00-9:40	Keynote lecture Digital and collaborative ports: Relationship between International Trade Single Windows and Port Single Windows – Progress with the SELA-CAF Project. Eng. Luis Ascencio Carreño. SELA’s Consultant.
9:40-10:15	Evolution and Interoperability of Single Windows: Towards Collaborative Platforms for Cross Border Trade Mr. Markus Pikart, UNECE.
10:15-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:00-12:15	Theme III. International Trade Single Windows in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examples of impact measuring models. IDB-OECD Study – Impact Measuring Model. Mrs. Silvia Surescu, OECD. Measuring the Impact of Trade Facilitation Reform and Measurement under the Doing Business Report of the World Bank. Mr. William Gain, IFC, World Bank. The case of Mexico: Standard cost model endorsed by the OECD. Francisco Javier Anaya. Direction General of Export Control, Ministry of Economy. México.
12:15-12:30	General debate
12:30-14:00	FREE TIME FOR LUNCH
AFTERNOON 14:00-18:00	Theme IV. International Trade Single Windows in Latin America and the Caribbean. Achievements and challenges (2nd Session).
14:00-16:00	Version 2.0 of Costa Rica’s Single Window. Marvin Salas, Single Window Manager. PROCOMER, Costa Rica. Achievements with Single Window: Import Module. José Cornelio Deras, Head of the Centre of Import and Export Procedures (CIEX), Central Reserve Bank, El Salvador. Achievements and lessons learned from Paraguay’s Single Window. Edgar Vera Cabral, Coordinator VUI. National Directorate of Customs, Paraguay.
16:00-16:20	COFFEE BREAK
16:20-18:00	New developments with Single Windows in Guatemala. Fernando Herrera, Export Services Manager. Experiences with the implementation of the Single Window in Uruguay. Lorena Viegia and Daniela Vignolo. Single Windows – Uruguay. Development of Foreign Trade Single Windows in Ecuador - Links with the private sector. Eng. David Mussolini Chaug, Continuous Improvement. National Customs Authority.
18:00	Closing ceremony Remarks by Randall Karim, Director of Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communications, Trinidad and Tobago. Remarks by Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA).

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