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Informe Actividades año 2007
June 2007: Executive Director participate in Regional Workshop on the Implementation and Administration of Trade Agreements.

Caribbean and Latin American countries adopted trade policies that combine the participation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) -including negotiation on Doha Round- with renewed impulse to regional and world integration. Hence some new opportunities and challenges arise on the phase of implementation and administration of trade agreements In consequence, the work of implementation and administration of trade agreements is a medium-large term topic, linked to the institutional, economic and legal development of the countries, as well as the tecnification and modernization of its own business organizations.

To analyze this reality, the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC), in cooperation with the ECLAC office in Washington carried out a regional workshop to study the experience of Latin American Countries in the administration and implementation of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements. The meeting was on June 20 and 21, 2007 at Panama City, Panama and approximately 50 employee of 18 Latin American countries participated, most of them coming from Ministries of Foreign Commerce, Economy and Foreign Affairs. Also representatives of the civil society and the private sector participated, among them was the Executive Director of Centro Jurídico ILC. He spoke about the public-private cooperation in the implementation of trade agreements.

The goal of the workshop was knowing of first hand experience, narrated by the people in charge of the administration of those agreements, to identify and spread best practice, detect space for regional iniciatives of formation and technical assistance that allow the governments of the region improve the performance in this fields. Sponsored by Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and contribution of the subregional venue of the ECLAC in Mexico , and the United Nations for Development Program (UNDP), and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Panama.