| Day 2: Thursday 11 March 2021 | |
| 12:00-12:50 | Session 3:Update of Rules of Origin to capture the latest edition of the HS Moderator: Ms. Mette Werdelin Azzam, RoO Expert – Former Senior Technical Officer – WCO Speaker 1: An overview of the situation
Mr. Kolja Mendel, Managing Partner of Mendel Verlag see presentation Speaker 2: How to convert rules of origin from one HS version to another
Mr. Rafael Cornejo, Founding partner and Director of Origen.Digital see presentation Speaker 3: The situation seen from a Customs perspective
Ms. Aissata KOFFI YAMEOGO, Program Officer in charge of Rules of Origin and Management of Community Preferential Regime - ECOWAS Commission see presentation |
| 12:55-13:55 | Session 4: Revised Kyoto Convention and other WCO origin tools Moderator: Mr. Goro Suzuki, Technical Attaché- Origin Sub-Directorate, World Customs Organization Speaker 1: Update on the RKC review
Mr. Roman Bruehwiler, Senior Adviser at the Swiss Federal Customs Administration Section Free Trade and Customs Agreements Switzerland see presentation Speaker 2: Overview of self-certification
Ms. Rika Tokai, Deputy director at the Tariff Policy and Legal Division, Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan see presentation Speaker 3: Contributions from external stakeholders
Mr. Kit Hickey, Fonterra Group’s Customs & Tax Team providing specialist advice to the business in relation to Fonterra’s cross border trading activities No presentation material Speaker 4: Member administration’s perspective
Mr. Hervé Godin, Head of a Sector dealing with nonpreferential rules of origin and administrative cooperation in preferential trade arrangements in Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union (Unit E/5) – European Commission. see presentation
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| 14:00-14:50 | Session 5: WTO Nairobi Decision on Preferential Rules of Origin for LDCs Moderator: Mr. Demba Seck, Technical Officer – Origin Sub Directorate, World Customs Organization Speaker 1: Update on the implementation of the WTO Decision on Preferential Rules of Origin for LDCs
Mr. Darlan F. Marti, Trade policy Specialist at the WTO Market Access Division – Geneva – Switzerland see presentation Speaker 2: Update on the implementation of the WTO Nairobi Decision seen from an IGO perspective
Mr. Stefano Inama, Chief, Technical Cooperation and EIF Section, UNCTAD see presentation
Speaker 3 Customs perspective
Mr. Donald Tindamanyire, Principal Customs Officer, responsible for Tariffs, Valuation and Rules of Origin at the East African Community Secretariat see presentation |
