RD/RTA/12/Rev.21 24 September 2014 
   
 
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1 In English only. RD/RTA/12/Rev.2 
 
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  WTO Seminar on Cross-Cutting Issues  
in Regional Trade Agreements 
Thursday 25 September 2014  
Room W 
Revision  
09:30 – 09:45  Welcome and opening remarks 
Willy Alfaro, Director, Trade Policies Review Division  
 
09:45 – 11:00  Opening roundtable discussion 
Moderator: Keith Rockwell, Director Information and Ex ternal Relations Division, 
WTO 
H.E. Mr Gabriel Duque, Permanent Repr esentative of Colombia to the WTO 
Mr Guillermo Valles, Director Division on International Trade in Goods, Services 
and Commodities, UNCTAD  
Mr Michael Muggliston: Special Negoti ator, Free Trade Agreement Division, 
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia 
 Followed by Q&A from audience 
 
11:00 – 12:45 Session 1: Market access in goods and services  
 Moderator: H.E. Francisco Pirez Gordillo , Ambassador of Uruguay, Chair of CRTA 
Jo-Ann Crawford (TPRD), Maria Donner (TPRD) 
Papers:  Market access provisions on trade in  goods in regional trade agreements  
 (ERSD-2012-20) 
Preferential rules of origin In regional trade agreements  
(ERSD-2013-05) 
 Pierre Latrille (TPRD) 
Papers: Services rules in regional trad e agreements: How diverse and how 
creative as compared to th e GATS multilateral rules?  (ERSD-2012-19)  
Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements: An Expanded    
Dataset   (ERSD-2011-18) 
 
12:45 - 14:15  Lunch  
 14:15 - 16:30 Session 2: Regulatory issues in RTAs 
 Moderator: Valerie Hughes, Dire ctor, Legal Affairs Division, WTO 
Jo-Ann Crawford (TPRD), Jean Daniel Rey (TPRD) 
Papers: Antidumping regional re gimes and the multilateral trading system: do 
regional antidumping re gimes make a difference?   (ERSD-2012-22) RD/RTA/12/Rev.2 
 
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  Mapping of Safeguard Provisions  in Regional Trade Agreements   
(ERSD-2013-10) 
 Raymundo Valdes (IPD), Nora Neufeld (MAD) 
Papers:  Intellectual property provisions in regional trade agreements 
(ERSD-2012-21)—to be updated. 
Trade Facilitation Provisions in Re gional Trade Agreements Traits and 
Trends  (ERSD-2014-01) 
Claude Chase (AB) 
Paper:  Mapping of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Regional Trade 
Agreements — Inno vative or Variations on a Theme?  (ERSD-2013-07) 
 
16:30 - 17:45  Wrap Up Roundtable Discussion 
Moderator:  Dan Pruzin, Information and External Relations Division, WTO 
 Ben Czapnik, Advisor, Business and Trade Polic y Section, International Trade Centre (ITC) 
 
Iza Lejarraga, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD  Marcus Bartley Johns, Trade and Competitiveness Specialist, World Bank 
 
Aileen Kwa, Coordinator, Trade and Development Programme, South Centre  
Gabrielle Marceau, Counsellor, Legal Affairs Division, WTO 
 Robert Teh, Counsellor, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO. 
 
 
17:45      Closing address by the Director General 
 
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