📋 Tender Overview
Project No.
SCSC 01 2023T
Project Title
Workshop on Sharing Best Practices on Strengthening Internal Coordination to Facilitate the Effective Implementation of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement among APEC Economies
Project Status
Project in Implementation
Publication (if any)
Fund Account
TILF Special Account
Sub-fund
None
Project Year
2023
Project Session
Session 1
APEC Funding
72,000
Co-funding Amount
18,000
Total Project Value
90,000
Sponsoring Forum
Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC)
Topics
Conformance; Standards
Committee
Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI)
Other Fora Involved
Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved
Proposing Economy(ies)
Indonesia
Co-Sponsoring Economies
Australia; Canada; Philippines; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States
Expected Start Date
01/09/2023
Expected Completion Date
31/07/2024
Project Proponent Name 1
Dewi Komalasari
Job Title 1
Deputy Director
Organization 1
BSN
Postal Address 1
Not Applicable
Telephone 1
(62) 89625280066
Fax 1
Not Applicable
Email 1
demi.komalasari@bsn.go.id
Project Proponent Name 2
Not Applicable
Job Title 2
Not Applicable
Organization 2
Not Applicable
Postal Address 2
Not Applicable
Telephone 2
Not Applicable
Fax 2
Not Applicable
Email 2
Not Applicable
Declaration
Dewi Komalasari
Project Summary
Internal coordination between stakeholders, including regulators, standardization bodies, industry association, and others, is the key element in terms of monitoring and reviewing other Members’ notifications, besides responding to enquiries from other WTO members on economies’ own measures. Some economies might have taken strategic approaches to deal with TBT issues at internal level. However, effectiveness of internal coordination and how far it can solve the technical barrier and further contribute to ease the trade flows among APEC Economies need to be further discussed.
This project aims to explore how strategic approaches implemented at the home economy that deal with TBT issues can be improved, by benchmarking experience on aspects of regulatory coordination and administrative mechanism towards trade facilitation.
This project will consist of the development of a background paper, 3-days workshop to be held in Bali at the end of April 2024 to share on internal coordination related to the TBT agreement by inviting participants from regulators and industries from APEC economies.
Relevance
Issues: The project seeks to address challenges faced by APEC economies related to its domestic strategies to overcome TBT issues and maximize the potential and the strength of these strategies to promote trade and investment through a transparent, fair, and predictable trade among APEC economies.
This project aims to obtain best practices for implementing internal coordination in fulfilling the principles of transparency and improving the implementation of Go
