There is a need for countries to establish a standardized sustainable mechanism to monitor the effectiveness of policies and procedures that facilitate trade and speed up international shipments. In order to do that, an agreement about the metrics to measure the concept of trade facilitation and the methodology to extract information from the data will help governments, politicians, international organizations and stakeholders to identify solutions to streamline and optimize trade and transport process.

During the 27th UN/CEFACT Forum (25 – 29 April 2016, Geneva, Switzerland), a Mini Conference will be held to launch a new project to develop a Recommendation for Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanism. The Conference will bring together knowledge and open the dialogue about the steps that are needed in order to establish stable mechanisms for measuring, analyzing and monitoring transport and trade facilitation services. 

About this mini-conference

The purpose of the Mini Conference is to:

• Discuss opportunities for providing standardized methodologies for analyzing the data in trade facilitation

• Inform about current studies conducted for analyzing and monitoring trade facilitation and transportation

• Comment on the question of coordination between the bodies that measure and monitor trade facilitation

• State the biggest challenges in the coming years to promote, maintain and monitor trade facilitation

• Provide updates on existing relevant UN/CEFACT standards and recommendations that have synergies with measuring trade facilitation

• Provide information about synergies between TTFMM and the Bali Agreement such as the creation of National Trade Facilitation Committees

Target audience

Experts on trade facilitation, international trade, transport and logistics from governments, academia and international organizations.

Programme

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