8:30 – 09:00

9:00 – 09:40

Opening session

Head table: 

• Mr Juan Ramón Carlos Enrique Cáceres Chávez, Minister of Finance
• Mr Tharsis Salomón López, Minister of Economy
• Ms Luz Estrella Rodríguez, Vice-Minister of Economy
• Mr Oscar Ovidio Cabrera: President of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
• Ms Gloria Cañas Arias, International Adviser. Representative of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)

Welcome speeches: 

• Ms Gloria Cañas Arias, Representative of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
• Mr Tharsis Salomón López, Minister of Economy, responsible for leading the trade and trade facilitation policy in El Salvador
• Mr Oscar Ovidio Cabrera, President of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador, institution responsible for managing the Centre for Import and Export Procedures, Foreign Trade Single Windows, called CIEX El Salvador. 

Keynote speech

9:40-10:10

Experience of El Salvador in the implementation of the trade facilitation strategy at the national and regional levels.
Speaker: Ms Luz Estrella Rodríguez. Vice-Minister of Economy of El Salvador

Questions and answers

10:10 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 17:00

THEMATIC AREA 1: TRADE FACILITATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS   

• Experience and results of the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration, through the implementation of the Virtual Single Window, in support to the electronic exchange of data between customs and Foreign Trade Single Windows.
• Speaker: Néstor Alfredo Domínguez Hernández - Director of Technology, SIECA 
• The core importance of FTSW in the coordinated management of borders
  Speaker: Margarita Libby – Integration and Trade Sector, IDB. 
• Electronic data exchange and equivalent legal acceptance - Difficulties and modern methods of authentication.
  Speaker: Felipe Sánchez, Vice-President for Legal Affairs – Gestión de Seguridad Electrónica S.A. - GSE 

Questions and answers  

12:30 - 14:00

Free time for lunch

14:00 – 17:00 

• Trade facilitation and port logistics: Elements for the electronic data exchange between FTSW and PSW.
  Speaker: Luis Ascencio Carreño, SELA’s Consultant.

• Importance of the Single Window for the administration of trade agreements and support to trade policy.
  Speaker: Mr Juan Gabriel Quintero, Deputy Director of Administration of Trade Agreements, Ministry of Economy, El Salvador.

• Trade facilitation and origin regimes: Their impact of Foreign Trade Single Windows.
  Speaker: Rafael Cornejo – Consultant in International Trade.

• Modern management of airports, interoperability of the systems of the International Air Transport Association and the Foreign Trade Single Window, to conduct prior formalities for trade in goods. Mexican experience
  Speaker: Joaquin Eugenio González Galván, Manager of Customs Modernization - Foreign Trade Single Window of Mexico (FTSWM)

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Questions and answers

Closing the day and Special Communiqué

Official in charge: Master of ceremonies 

Welcome dinner at the hotel lobby

Welcome dinner 

Friday, 14 October 2016

THEMATIC AREA 2: BALANCE BETWEEN CONTROL AND FACILITATION

• Public-Private Coordination: Experience of the Commission of Inter-Union Trade Facilitation (CIFACIL) with the continuous modernization of Foreign Trade Single Window services.
  Speaker: Carmen Aida Meardi. CIFACIL, El Salvador.

• Re-engineering business and trade processes and transport to maximize the benefits from trade facilitation.
  Speaker: Fernando Romero, Consultant - Praxis.

• Features of the Single Window for reducing times and costs associated with the movement of goods at border crossings, based on the experience obtained in the implementation of the RFID technology in El Salvador. 
  

  Speakers: Carlos Ovando, Expert in Trade Facilitation, and Carlos Roberto Mejía, Expert in IT applied to Trade Facilitation.

Questions and answers  

• Capacity building for the ratification and implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement. Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. Speaker: Julia Maciel, Coordinator of Regional Office for Trade Facilitation - Representative of WCO.

• Lessons learned with the creation of the Centre of Procedures for Imports and Exports, CIEX, El Salvador
  Speaker: José Cornelio Deras Robles, CIEX Manager El Salvador

• SIDUNEA WORLD: Experience in electronic data exchange with FTSWs in the world, advances and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean. 
  

  Speaker: Yannick Goujon, UNCTAD

Questions and answers

Forum - Discussion group: Implementing, strengthening and expanding services and new projects related to FTSW in the region.

• Experience of Guatemala. Estuardo Arriaga, Manager of Single Window for Exports
• Experience of Costa Rica. Marvin Salas, Manager of FTSW – PROCOMER
• Experience of Dominican Republic. Jorge Medrano. Gerente de Planificación y Desarrollo de la Dirección General de Aduanas
• Experience de Trinidad y Tobago. Christian Marquez, Single Electronic Window (SEW) Specialist, Ministry of Trade and Industry

Questions and answers 

Coffee break

THEMATIC AREA 3: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF FTSW IN COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

• Experience of Uruguay. Lorena Veiga, Manager of FTSW
• Experience of Colombia. Myrian Tibavisky, Deputy Director – Directorate for Foreign Trade
• Experience of Mexico. Emmanuel Ortega, Director – Secretariat of Economy
• Experience of Paraguay. Edgar Vera, Coordinator of Single Window for Imports
• Experience of Peru - Mariela Gutarra Ramos, Autoridad Portuaria Nacional - APN

• SELA
• CIEX, El Salvador