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TFA IS BINDING TO ALL WTO MEMBERS

TFA Advocacy & Outreach • Promoting TFA awareness & mobilizing business

community in dialogues

• Knowledge Portal on www.tradefacilitation.org

• 2017 engaging in outreach in the following countries:

– Brazil; Morocco; Honduras; Dominican Republic; Nigeria; Philippines; Guatemala

• We are looking for people who can help

Lifecycle of an Alliance Project

3. IMPLEMENT PROJECT

A. Contract local implementer B. Monitor & Evaluate Results

2. DEVELOP COUNTRY PROJECT STRATEGY

A. Select barrier B. Identify champions C. Design program & define

scope

1. ASSESS COUNTRY CONDITIONS

A. Receive interest from country

B. Conduct needs & resource assessment

C. Identify, meet stakeholders

In-country projects Country Project Phase Implementer

Colombia Execution CIPE

Viet Nam Execution CIPE

Ghana Impending Execution GIZ

Kenya Execution GIZ

Morocco Planning GIZ

Sri Lanka Planning CIPE

Dominican Republic Planning CIPE

Argentina Initiation GIZ

Honduras Initiation CIPE

Brazil Initiation CIPE

Myanmar Paused CIPE

Project Launched September 2017: Introduction of a new system to support

compliance with WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and domestic laws

Objective: To establish and operationalize a Modern Customs Bond System in

order to reduce clearance times through “conditional release,” and to reduce

OGAs’ current role as a brake at the border

Customs bonds will serve as a trade facilitation tool by:

1. Guaranteeing trade compliance by importers and exporters; and

2. Establishing a government-approved model that fulfils government

agencies’ requirements.

Direct project beneficiaries are importers, exporters, government agencies

seeking greater compliance, and government officials charged with boosting

trade.

Vietnam: Modern Customs Bond System

Two Projects:

1. Center for Trade Facilitation and Good Practices (CTFGP) - a processing mechanism to

reduce waiting times at the borders and increase coordination and trust among government

agencies and private sector.

• Approved by the SG in September 2017.

Objectives:

– Expedite border processing through a client-based approach to trade that identifies

bottlenecks and pilots solutions; and

– Support better information and build trust between government and the private

sector.

2. Risk Management System for Colombian National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute

(INVIMA) - an IT-based solution aimed at reducing the rate of physical inspections by INVIMA

thus accelerating the clearance process and border points.

Objective: To assist INVIMA to implement a risk-based inspection management system

in all ports of entry (Inspection, Surveillance, and Control System or IVC System) for food,

medicines, medical equipments and cosmetics.

- On track to launch the food part of the RMS by the end of the 2017.

Colombia

Ghana • Project: Expedite Release of Goods through Risk-

based Pre-arrival processing

• Timeframe: 17 months

• KPIs:

– 100% paperless release & clearance

– At least 75% of shipments assigned to “green channel”

– At least 90% of “green channel” released at time of arrival

• Partners: NFTC, Customs, DHL, FedEx, Agility and Maersk

Kenya

• Project: Expedite Release of Goods through Risk-based Pre-arrival Processing

• Timeframe: 17 months

• KPIs: – At least 70% release upon arrival of all incoming

shipments (currently <10%)

• Partners: NFTC, Customs, DHL, Maersk

Morocco

• Scoping mission: June 2017

• Preliminary concept ideas: – Data analytics

– Port procedure optimization

• Partners: Ministry of Foreign Trade, General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), FedEx, DHL, Maersk

Brazil

• Fact-Finding Mission – August 2017

• Formal Scoping Mission – October 2017

• Stakeholders Involved – CNI, SECEX, DHL, Embraer, Cargill, BASF…

• Preliminary ideas – AEO expansion, Pre-Arrival Processing, Risk Management System

• Looking ahead – Concept note generation

Dominican Republic

• Scoping mission conducted Aug 28 to Sep 1

• Main Stakeholders: AMCHAMDR, Customs, Agriculture, Health, Environment, Technical Standards

• Preliminary scope: reengineering and automation of processes in OGAs, online payments, trade information portal, capacity building

Myanmar • Scoping mission – August 2017

• Stakeholders involved: – Customs, Federation of Chambers of Commerce, MoC,

private sector companies, DHL etc.

• Preliminary ideas: – Rules of Origin Program (Customs + Chamber + MoC)

– Establish an electronic payments system

• Project paused – Political sensitivities regarding Rohigya

Metrics & Measurement Leveraging real world business metrics to empirically show the benefits of trade facilitation and gather support among public and private stakeholders for trade facilitation reforms: • Clearance time and variance

• % on time international delivery

Currently working with: • Agility, DHL, FedEx, Maersk, UPS

How we can work with you: • Explore trade and supply chain KPIs

• Shaping our bench-marking framework

• Engagement on data in priority countries

Global Enabling

Trade Report

Trade Facilitation Dashboard

Trade facilitation datasets

Metrics development

Knowledge dissemination

Indices and bench-

marking

Empirical analysis

Knowledge development

Looking ahead – What are we looking for in future partner countries?:

1. Developing countries with a high political will for trade facilitation reforms in cooperation with business; AND

2. Private sector interest both internationally and locally to work with the government on these reforms.

– Countries we are looking at next:

• Honduras

• Nigeria

• Jordan

• Cambodia

• Others

Next steps for engagement? Question 1: Have you identified an interest in any of our existing or prospective countries and projects? Question 2: Which other countries do you think we should consider a partnership with – where you are willing to support the Alliance work (in-kind or financial)? Question 3: Would you be interested in supporting our strategic outreach efforts (liaising with governments and IOs) & promote the TFA and reforms in cooperation with business?