VII LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN REGIONAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE SINGLE WINDOWS: SINGLE WINDOWS AS TOOLS FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION
Montevideo, Uruguay. October  15 to 16, 2015 . Hotel Radisson Montevideo, Plaza Independencia 759, Montevideo 11100.

OBJECTIVES

General objective

Provide a space for encounter and dialogue to encourage regional dialogue through an exchange of successful experiences and relevant information on strategic issues and developments that have taken place in the region in terms of Foreign Trade Single Windows, with the purpose of contributing to their development and consolidation, within the framework of the processes of regional and digital integration in Latin America and the Caribbean.   

 

Specific objectives

  1. Discuss emerging and innovative topics with a relevant impact on the design and development of Foreign Trade Single Windows in Latin America and the Caribbean, as essential instruments for facilitating trade and commercial integration.

  2. Provide analytical elements to foster the progress and deepening of Single Windows and to promote the expected relationship between them along the international supply chain.

  3. Disseminate the best practices stemming from Projects and Programmes aimed at designing and implementing SW, making emphasis on the methodologies, procedures and resources with proven effectiveness in the field of cross-border paperless trade, following the criteria of interoperability, efficiency, compatibility of standards and security. 

  4. Generate convergence as regards the development of Single Windows, aiming at the unification of the criteria required for implementing common processes and systems with capacity to exchange information, the development of organizational and technological interoperability, and the harmonization of data, on the basis of international standards on foreign trade.