Talking TF: Recent Episodes
Birgit Viohl
A monthly conversation with experts to capture the changing and evolving nature of trade facilitation. Listen to practitioners to learn about upcoming issues. solutions, and trends shaping trade facilitation.
In this episode Jonathan Koh and Ibrahima Diagne discuss the current second wave of Single Window projects, failures and challenges of implementing Single Window, backend process optimisation versus technology focus, stakeholder orchestration and evolution towards cross-border data exchange.
References discussed:
UNECE Recommendation 33 https://unece.org/trade/uncefact/tf_recommendations
J. Koh 10 years of Single Window https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trade/Trade_Facilitation_Forum/ConferencePPTs/D01_06AM_10Years_of_SW_TT_Koh.pdf
UK Single Window discussion paper https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-single-trade-window-discussion-paper/uk-single-trade-window-policy-discussion-paper
Jan Hoffmann, UNCTAD, presents how data availability and technology evolutions will change data usage, process automation and processes optimisation, reflects on the logistics chain crisis and trade facilitation, and looks out to the future of TF.
link to UNCTAD ad hoc expert meeting
https://unctad.org/meeting/ad-hoc-expert-meeting-maritime-supply-chain-crisis
link UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2021
https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2021_en_0.pdf
Poul Hansen, UNCTAD, talks about the importance of capacity building, flexibility in applying the SDT rules of the WTO TFA, evolutions in transit facilitation, the "beyond the WTO TFA" issue of cross-border data exchange.
Link to the UNCTAD forum for NTFCs
https://unctad.org/meeting/global-forum-2022-national-trade-facilitation-committees
Dr M. Saeed from ITC talks how trade facilitation will change, the linkages between logistics efficiency and trade facilitation, role of trade facilitation in the pandemic, and the potential of modernising multilateral rules for TF.
link to the WTO review of the TFA
https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/TFA/2.pdf&Open=True
link to Columbia FDI perspectives paper on Implementing Investment Facilitation by Dr Saeed
https://ccsi.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/docs/fdi%20perspectives/No%20322%20-%20Saeed%20-%20FINAL.pdf