10 - 14 February 2020
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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 |
Related Site:
More information about the UNCTAD Programme on NTMs: http://unctad.org/ntm
More information about ERIA: http://www.eria.org/
The global database on Non-Tariff Measures: http://trains.unctad.org
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Topic
Trade analysisProgramme
Contact
Mr. Ralf Peters, Ralf.Peters@un.org
Ms. Denise Penello Rial, Denise.penello.rial@un.org
Ms. Mingcong Li, Mingcong.li@un.org
Ms. Denise Penello Rial, Denise.penello.rial@un.org
Ms. Mingcong Li, Mingcong.li@un.org