National Stakeholder Consultations on Business (Trade) Process Analysis (BPA) for Agricultural Trade Facilitation in South and Southeast Asia

The Trade Facilitation work package aims at identifying trade facilitation measures that may particularly contribute to poverty reduction, promote intra-regional learning and building capacity of developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region to implement them. 

 

In order to identify the bottlenecks of trade processes and recommend a set of Trade Facilitation measures of agro or food products, the Trade and Investment Division (TID) of ESCAP has commissioned Business Process Analysis (BPA) Studies in five countries on Export and Import of agricultural or food products in South and Southeast Asia. The National Consultations provide an opportunity to share the findings of the Studies, validate them and most importantly, identify few recommendations that will make trade processes more efficient for these and similar products.

Four National Stakeholder Consultation meetings have already taken place in Lao PDR, Bangladesh, Nepal and Cambodia during February and April 2013 in collaboration with Local Associates of the project.

The scope of the BPA studies are as follows :

Bangladesh	Business (Trade) Process Analysis (BPA) for Export of Jute Bags to India and Import of Wheat from India
Cambodia	BPA for Export of Maize and Cassava to China
Lao PDR	BPA for Export of Maize to Thailand and Import of Animal Feed from Thailand
Myanmar	BPA for Export of Mango and Rice to China, Import of Palm Oil from Malaysia
Nepal	BPA for Export of Cardamom to India and Import of Rice from India

The next Consultation will take place in Yangon, Myanmar on 7 May in collaboration with Ministry of Commerce, Myanmar.

For more information please contact Mr. Khan Salehin, TID, ESCAP (salehin@un.org)