Meeting Date
10 – 14 February 2020
Location
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Body
The capacity building workshops in Brunei Darussalam (10-11 Feb) and Malaysia (13-14 Feb) are organized at the request of the respective member state through the ASEAN Secretariat as a response to the AEC 2025 Trade Strategic Plan, and the endorsement of the ASEAN Economic Ministers to the Guideline for the Implementation of ASEAN Commitments on Non-Tariff Measures in Goods.
The workshop intends to cover the following important topics:
- What are NTMs and why are they important?
- Identification and classification of NTMs using UNCTAD’s International Classification of NTMs
- Introduction to TRAINS Online Tool and how to use UNCTAD’s TRAINS Database to query information on NTMs?
- How to utilize NTMs data from TRAINS Database for specific product/market of interest of the respective country?
- Examples of Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) in developing countries (i.e. UNCTAD’s cost-effectiveness toolkit)
- How to improve regulatory practices and foster ASEAN-wide regulatory cooperation?
Co-organizer(s):
The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Language(s)
English
