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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation World Trade Organization
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APEC/WTO Trade Facilitation Roundtable 2005
February 10, 2005
Geneva, Switzerland
Organized byJAPAN
PROGRAM
08:45~09:00 Registration
09:00~09:30 Opening Remarks
Mr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Director-General, WTO Secretariat
Mr. Alan Bowman
Chair of the APEC CTI (Committee on Trade & Investment)
Mrs. Elisabeth Tankeu
Commissioner for Trade and Industry, African Union
Ambassador Choi Hyuck
Permanent Representative of Korea to the WTO
Ambassador Muhamad Noor Yacob
Chair of the WTO Trade Facilitation Negotiation Group
09:30~11:00 Session 1: WTO Negotiations on Trade Facilitation
Session Moderator
Mr. Zulkafli A. Karim
Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the WTO
09:30-10:15 Trade Facilitation in the WTO
Speaker
Ms. Nora Neufeld
Legal Affairs Officer, Trade and Finance and Trade Facilitation Division, WTO
Panelists
Mr. Ivan K. B. Lee
Deputy Representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China to the WTO
Ms. Hyo-eun Kim
Regional Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea
Ambassador Ransford Smith
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Office of the United Nations
10:15~11:00 Q&A
11:00~11:15 Coffee Break
11:15~13:00 Session 2: Related works of other International Organizations and possible contributions to the WTO processes
Session Moderator
Mrs. Heather Grant
Tariffs and Market Access, International Trade Canada
Panelists
Ms Hu Lan
WTO Office, General Administration of Customs, China
Ms. Mary Elizabeth Chelliah
Trade Division, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore
Prof. Festus Fajana
Secretary of Commissioner Mrs Tankeu, African Union
11:15~11:35 World Bank
Mr. Gerard McLinden
Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist, International Trade Department, the World Bank
11:35~11:55 WCO
Mr. Tadatsugu Mastudaira
Technical Officer, World Customs Organization
11: 55-12:15 OECD
Ms. Evdokia Moise
Trade Policy Analyst, Trade Liberalization and Review Division, Trade Dictorate, OECD
12:15-13:00 Q&A
14:00~15:30 Session 3: Approaches to Trade Facilitation and sharing experiences
Session Moderator
Mr Garry Grant
Senior Australian Customs Representative, Australia
14:00~14:30 APEC’s work on Trade Facilitation
Mr. Francisco Prieto
APEC Chile-CTI (Committee on Trade & Investment) Representative
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile
14:30-14:50 Case study 1: APEC (Peru)
Mr. Ernesto Guevara
Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Peru
14:50~15:10 Case study 2: APEC (Philippines)
Mrs Tida Joice Reyes
Department of Trade and Indsutry, Philippines
15:10~15:30 Case study 3: AU (Uganda)
Mrs. Florence Kata
Executive Director, Uganda ExportPromotion Board, Uganda
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45~17:30 Session 4: Agenda for Future Work in the WTO
Session Moderator
Mr. Richard Eglin,
Director, Trade and Finance and Trade Facilitation Division, WTO
(All speakers and participants are invited to the roundtable discussion)
18:00~19:30 Reception
Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva
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