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Initiative on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements

12 May 2020 | Event (Other events)

Following the raft of ad-hoc trade measures taken by countries in response to the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations ESCAP secretariat conducted a rapid review of bilateral and regional trade agreement (RTA) texts to see if they provided any guidance on what partners should do to ensure minimal disruption to trade and supply chains in such crises. As expected, RTAs include clauses in order to permit exception to the agreements in time of emergencies; but for the most part they do not feature provisions that could help deal with trade disruption in emergency or crisis situations. To address th…

High-level midterm review on the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries

5 - 6 December 2019 | Event (Meetings of the United Nations system)

The comprehensive high-level midterm review on the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, was held on 5 and 6 December 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. The midterm review analyzed the status of implementation of the Vienna Programme and was a forum to share best practices and lessons learnt, identify remaining obstacles and constraints encountered and the actions needed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme. In the occasion, the Unit also participated in the side event: Trade facilita…

Project progress presentation: “Value Chain for deeper integration between Latin America Asia Pacific” and “Inequalities in FEALAC member countries: policy formulation”

8 - 9 November 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

In the framework of the IX Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) held in the Dominican Republic, on November 9, 2019, The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and The Caribbean (ECLAC) and The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (ESCAP) presented the progress of the main results of the Projects: "Value Chain Development for Deeper Integration of East Asia and Latin America", and "Reducing inequality in FEALAC member countries: innovative policies that leave no one behind”. The authori…

Second High-Level China-Latin America Investment and Cooperation Forum

16 October 2019, 05:45 - 14:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Second High-Level China-Latin America Investment and Cooperation Forum, organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, will be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on October 16, 2019.…

Intra- and inter-regional value chains: Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific

19 September 2019, 06:00 - 11:55 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

In the city of Seoul, José Durán, Chief of the Regional Integration Unit of the Division of International Trade and Integration of ECLAC, presented the main results of the project “Value Chain Development for the Deeper Integration of East Asia and Latin America”. The meeting, which took place at the embassy of Peru and was attended by representatives of the Group of Ambassadors of Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC), was convened by Raúl Silverio Silvagni, Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay in the Republic of Korea and Dean of GRULAC in Seoul. The presentation served as a space for E…

FEALAC’S Trade Facilitation in the context of the Digital Economy

18 September 2019, 06:30 - 14:20 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

In the framework of the annual FEALAC Working Group Meeting on “Trade, Investment, Tourism and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina co-organized the seminar "FEALAC’s Trade Facilitation in the context of the Digital Economy". The seminar aimed to find ways to improve regional connectivity among FEALAC member states and to nurture business capabilities of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in a digital economy. The meeting focused on the analysis of value chains and th…

Input-Output Tables as a Tool for Trade and Industrial Policy in Latin America and Relations with Asia-Pacific

11 - 13 September 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC, through its International Trade and Integration Division and in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, is organizing the International Seminar "Input-Output Tables as a Tool for Trade and Industrial Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and Relations with Asia Pacific,” and the roundtable “Dynamics of the Intra and Inter Regional Value Chains and Integration in Latin America and Asia.” These activities are taking place under the projects "Input-Output Tables for Industrial Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean”&nb…

Caribbean Road Safety Regional Workshop

8 - 9 August 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The capacity-building workshop bringed together international experts and representatives from eleven Caribbean English-speaking countries  Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Lucía, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss safer systems approaches and urban mobility policies; promoting a stronger regulatory and enforcement framework; optimizing data management for improved planning and policy making; as well as best practices for vehicle safety, including powered motor cycles.   …

Technical workshop on “Value chain development for deeper integration of FEALAC: Asian perspectives”

10 - 11 July 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is organizing a technical Workshop from 10 to 11 July 2019, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is part of the collaborative project between ESCAP, ECLAC and ADB in a project aiming to enhance value chain integration between Asia and Latin America. The workshop will gather policy analysts, researchers and policymakers working in Asia-Pacific member states of FEALAC. The purposes of the workshop are to review the study in intraregional value chains development and to identify emerging opportunities and challenges facing Asia-…

Third Regional-Global Trade in Value Added (TiVA) Initiatives Workshop

26 - 27 June 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Regional-Global meeting on Trade in Value Added (TiVA) initiatives took place in Paris, at the headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the end of June 2019. This meeting came as a follow-up to the development of the different TiVA initiatives. Delegates from different international organizations participated including the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States Department of Commerce, Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Commission's Joint Research Center (EC-JRC), as well as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNEC…

CORPYME Training workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs

13 May 2019, 05:00 - 14:00 | Event (Other events)

This training workshop will take place at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile on May 13th, 2019. It is part of the CORPYME project, which is an action plan sponsored by the Republic of Korea and implemented by ECLAC to strengthen the capacities of countries to promote the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), through a more intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and export innovation. This workshop has three objectives: a) present the advances and challeng…

International Seminar "Value Chains between the Countries of MERCOSUR and Asia Pacific"

13 May 2019, 04:15 - 08:30 | Event (Other events)

The seminar "Value Chains between the Countries of MERCOSUR and Asia Pacific" will be held in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay on May 13th, 2019. The seminar is part of the projects "Input-Output Tables for Industrial and Trade Policies in Central and South America" and "Value chain development for a deeper integration of East Asia and Latin America". During the Seminar, the methodology followed by ECLAC to assemble the South American Input-Output Table and Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) Input-Output Table for 2005 and 2011 will be presented. ECLAC will share so…

Seminar on "Advances of the Northern Triangle Customs Union: Impact and Benefits for the Region"

29 March 2019, 05:30 - 08:30 | Event (Other events)

The seminar "Advances of the Northern Triangle Customs Union: Impact and Benefits for the Region" will take place in the city of San Salvador on March 29th. The event will include the participation of the Minister of Economy, Dr. Luz Estrella Rodríguez, as well as Mr. René Salazar, Director of Trade Policy. The event was conceived with the objective of publicizing the results of the study carried out by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC): "Evaluation of the effects of the deepening of the Customs Union between the countries of the Northern Triangle".…

Seminar "Analysis of Value Chains from the sub-regional Andean Input-Output Table: The case of intraregional and Asia-Pacific trade"

26 March 2019, 06:00 - 09:30 | Event (Other events)

The seminar "Analysis of Value Chains from the Andean subregional Input-Output Table: The case of intraregional trade and that of Asia Pacific" will be held in the city of Bogotá on March 26. During the Seminar, the methodology followed by ECLAC to assemble the South American Input-Output Tables for 2005 and 2011 will be presented, as well as the Input-Output Table of the Andean Community in both its 2005 and 2011 versions. Likewise, ECLAC will present results related to intra-Andean value chains, as well as trade relations with extra-regional Asia-Pacific partners. The sem…

Meeting of International Cooperating Partners in Support of the Deep Integration Process of the Northern Triangle Countries

25 January 2019, 06:30 - 10:00 | Event (Other events)

In December 2014, the Governments of the Republics of Guatemala and Honduras announced their willingness to advance in the deepening of the economic integration process, in accordance with the provisions of the Central American legal instruments. The investment for the establishment of the Customs Union model between Guatemala and Honduras began in 2016, and the Customs Union between Guatemala and Honduras was officially launched on June 26, 2017. In 2018, El Salvador signed the Adhesion to the Process of Deep Integration towards the Free Transit of Goods and of Natural Persons between the Rep…

Seminar: Analysis of Value Chains from the Andean Product Subregional Input Output Table (IOT) and the South American IOT 2005-2011

11 December 2018, 06:00 - 09:30 | Event (Other events)

This seminar presented the methodology followed to assemble the 2005 South American Input Output Table (IOT), and the 2005 and 2011 versions of the Andean Community subregional IOT, as well as that corresponding national IOT. Similarly, ECLAC presented a set of results obtained from the Andean Community subregional IOT, as well as methodological details that allow for the use of the South American and Andean Community IOTs as tools for economic analysis. In addition, the seminar included presentations by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Development, the National Institu…

Seminar: Analysis of Value Chains from the Mercosur Subregional Input Output Table

6 December 2018, 11:15 - 14:30 | Event (Other events)

This seminar presented the methodology followed to assemble the 2005 Subregional South American Input Output Table (IOT), and the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, 2005 and 2011 versions, as well as that of each corresponding national IOT. Likewise, ECLAC presented a set of results obtained from the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, as well as methodological details that allow for the use of the South American and MERCOSUR IOTs as tools for economic analysis. The seminar also included a panel discussion on regional integration, infrastructure, and value chains. The course was held at the Institute o…

Global Services Forum in association with REDLAS Conference 2018: Knowledge-based services for sustainable development

13 - 14 September 2018 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

On 13–14 September 2018, the Global Services Forum (GSF) and the Conference of the Latin American Network for Research on Services (REDLAS) will come together in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to focus on the important role of knowledge-based services for sustainable development, productive and export diversification, innovation and internationalization.…

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