The establishment of a single window is a crucial step in the move towards paperless trade, generating significant savings in time and money for companies as well as the different public bodies involved in foreign trade. Under the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the World Trade Organization, which entered into force in 2017, all the Organization’s members committed to maintaining or establishing a single window. Asia is home to some of the world’s largest trading economies and to several of the most advanced single windows. This report analyses and compares the main functionalities of four: th…
This RDTII Guide, now in its second edition, serves as a handbook designed to assist policymakers and policy researchers in analysing digital trade regulations. The Guide complements RDTII version 2.0, a common framework developed in collaboration with the European University Institute and utilized by ESCAP, ECA and ECLAC for digital trade regulatory analysis. Users of this guide are recommended to use it in conjunction with the ESCAP-ECA-ECLAC Digital Trade Regulatory Review for Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023 and 2024 versions.
The guide provides essential explana…
The Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, will visit the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, this Thursday, September 5, in the context of his first official tour of the South American country.
The high-level official will meet with the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and afterwards, at 4:30 p.m. local time (GMT -4), he will give a keynote lecture about multilateral relations between Asian nations and Latin Amer…
El Secretario General de la Asociación de Naciones de Asia Sudoriental (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, visitará la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, el próximo jueves 5 de septiembre, en el marco de su primera gira oficial por este país sudamericano.
El alto funcionario se reunirá con el Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, y posteriormente a las 16:30 horas (GMT -4) dictará una conferencia magistral sobre las relaciones multilaterales entre las naciones asiáticas y las latinoa…
26 Ene 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:47
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Because international trade is essential for the Republic of Korea’s economic growth and development, the government actively promotes exports by large companies and especially by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Several programmes support participation by SMEs in cross-border e-commerce, which may have contributed to their rapidly rising exports through this channel. This report reviews selected programmes implemented by the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). To maximize the programmes’ impact, KOSME and KOTRA apply a circ…
As a preliminary step towards deepening understanding of the digital trade policy environment in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions, this report offers an overview of the digital trade policy landscape in the three regions. It presents aggregate findings based on the unified frameworks utilized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This framework is known as the Region…
31 Ene 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:47
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The rapid evolution of digital technologies has reshaped global business, forcing not only large but also small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to embrace digital trade. Nevertheless, many SMEs are struggling to fully implement digital technologies. Against this backdrop, the Republic of Korea has bolstered its support for SMEs, with a focus on human capital development, financing, and research and development. Furthermore, the country has revised its trade regulations and frameworks, placing significant emphasis on digital capacity-building and the alignment of regulations with internatio…
17 Oct 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:47
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La falta de datos detallados dificulta el análisis del comercio electrónico transfronterizo en América Latina y el Caribe. En este trabajo se utiliza la base de datos Marketplace Explorer de América Latina y el Caribe, de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Centro de Comercio Internacional (ITC) y la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Ámsterdam, sobre tráfico de visitas a plataformas en línea de comercio electrónico entre empresas y consumidores. Los datos muestran que las diez mayores economías de la región concentran más del 90% del tráfico transfronterizo dir…
Thursday 5th, September, 2024
His Excellency Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
Ms. Claudia Sanhueza, Undersecretary of International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile,
Members of the diplomatic and academic communities,
Colleagues and friends,
I wish to give a very warm welcome to ECLAC to Dr. Kao Kim Hourn and his high-level delegation.
Dr. Hourn, it is an honor to host you today at our headquarters.
Our greetings to all persons present and connected virtually,
It is an honor to organize this even…