Aid for Trade - WTO



Mobilizing Aid for Trade:

Latin America and the Caribbean

September 13-14, 2007

Miraflores Park Hotel

Lima, Peru

Organized by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and

the World Trade Organization (WTO)

in collaboration with the World Bank

and hosted by the Government of Peru

|Tentative Agenda |

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|Thursday, September 13, 2007 |

|8:30 – 9:00 |Registration |

|9:00 – 10:15 |Opening Plenary Session (Copacabana Room) |

|Mercedes Araoz , Minister of Trade and Tourism, Peru |

|Luis Carranza, Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru |

|Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank |

|Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization |

|Pamela Cox Vice President for LAC, World Bank on behalf of Mr. Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank |

| |Session 1: Why is the Aid for Trade Initiative so relevant for Latin America and the Caribbean? (Copacabana Room) |

|10:15 – 10:45 | |

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|Presentation Aid for Trade and Latin America and the Caribbean |

|Antoni Estevadeordal, Manager, Integration and Trade Sector, Inter-American Development Bank |

|10:45 –11:00 |Coffee Break |

|11:00 – 13:00 |Open Dialogue |

|The Dialogue will be moderated by Michael Reid, Americas Editor, The Economist, with initial remarks from a Minister of Finance and a Minister of Trade |

|followed by additional triggering comments by: |

|Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |

|Pamela Cox, Vice President for LAC, World Bank |

|Larry Mc Donald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technical Assistance Policy, US Department of Treasury |

|Peter Thompson, Director for Trade and Development, Directorate General of Trade, European Commission |

|13:00 – 15:00 |Lunch |

|15:00 – 18:30 |Breakout Sessions (Simultaneous) |

|15:00 – 15:45 |Session 2A: Mobilizing Aid for Trade: national strategies - focus South America |

| |(Copacabana Room) |

|Case Study Presentation: PERU |

|Mercedes Araoz, Minister of Trade and Tourism, Peru |

|15:45 – 16:30 |Networking Break |

|16:30 – 18:30 |Open Dialogue – Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus South America |

|The Dialogue will be moderated by Felix Peña, Director, Instituto de Comercio Internacional, Fundación Standard Bank with initial remarks from a Minister|

|of Finance and a Minister of Trade followed by additional triggering comments by: |

|José Gregorio Pineda, International Trade Agenda Coordinator, Andean Development Corporation, (CAF) |

|Osvaldo Rosales, Chief, International Trade and Integration Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) |

|Donor Representative (TBC) |

|Guillermo Van Oordt, President, Agriexport Union Association,Peru |

|15:00 – 15:45 |Session 2B: Mobilizing Aid for Trade: regional strategies - focus Caribbean |

| |(Splendido Room) |

|Case Study Presentation: CARIBBEAN |

|Billie Miller, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados |

|15:45 – 16:30 |Networking Break |

|16:30 – 18:30 |Open Dialogue – Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Caribbean |

|The Dialogue will be moderated by Simon Evenett, Professor University of St. Gallen with initial remarks from a Minister of Finance and a Minister of |

|Trade followed by additional triggering comments by: |

|Havelock Brewster, Senior Advisor, Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, (CRNM) |

|Randolph Cato, Director of the Economic Affairs Division, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Secretariat (OECS) |

|Kelvin Dalrymple, Chief Research Economist, Caribbean Development Bank, (CDB) |

|Peter Thompson, Director for Trade and Development, Directorate General of Trade, European Commission |

|Carol Ayoung, CEO, Caribbean Business Forum |

|15:00 – 15:45 |Session 2C: Mobilizing Aid for Trade: private sector strategies – |

| |focus Central America, Mexico |

| |(Venecia Room) |

|Case Study Presentation: Focus Central America and Mexico |

|Arturo Condo, Dean, INCAE Business School |

|15:45 – 16:30 |Networking Break |

|16:30 – 18:30 |Open Dialogue – Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Central America and Mexico |

|The Dialogue will be moderated by Alberto Trejos, Former Ministry of Trade, Costa Rica with initial remarks from a Minister of Finance and a Minister of |

|Trade followed by additional triggering comments by: |

|Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Department of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness, Organization of American States (OAS) |

|Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, (ITC) |

|José Manuel Salazar, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO |

|Paul Bonicelli, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, US Agency for International Development |

|Carlos Araya, President, Artinsoft, Costa Rica |

|19:00 – 21:00 |Reception - hosted by the government of peru |

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|Friday, September 14 |

|9:00 – 9:45 |Session 3: Mobilizing Aid for Trade - Latin America and the Caribbean |

| |(Copacabana Room) |

| |The Session will be a dialogue moderated by Claudia Uribe, Ambassador of Colombia to the WTO. The Session will be opened with Brief |

| |Reports (5-10 minutes) of the main issues discussed at side events by Representatives of the WTO, OECD and Private Sector. In |

| |addition the previous day session’s moderators will report on the discussions of the panels and put forward key issues to be |

| |addressed during Session 4A and 4B. |

|9:45 – 11:00 |Session 4A: Supply Side of Aid for Trade – Financing Partnerships |

| |This session will be moderated by Richard Lapper, Latin America Editor, Financial Times and will look at the region’s supply side |

| |capacity and infrastructure gaps from a financing perspective. |

|11:00 – 11:30 |Coffee Break |

|11:30 – 13:00 |Session 4B: Demand Side of Aid for Trade: Ministerial Roundtable |

| |(Copacabana Room) |

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|Roundtable with Ministers of Trade and Ministers of Finance moderated by Richard Lapper, Latin America Editor, Financial Times |

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|13:00 – 13:15 |Closing Plenary Session |

|Alan Garcia, President of Peru |

|Pascal Lamy, Director General World Trade Organization |

|Luis Alberto Moreno, President Inter American Development Bank |

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|13:15 – 15:00 |Lunch (by invitation only) |

Aid-for-Trade Workshops

(September 12 & 14)

|SEPTEMBER 12 (all day) |

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|workshop on the standards and trade development facility |

|organized by wto and idb |

|SEPTEMBER 12 (all day) |

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|workshop on private sector and aid for trade initiatives |

|organized by idb and itc |

|SEPTEMBER 14 (afternoon) |

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|workshop on needs assessment and monitoring aid for trade |

|organized by oecd and idb |

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