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Customs Cooperation Committee Working Group Meeting
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 21-25 April 2003

Background and Objectives

The Seminar was part of Asian Development Bank's (ADB) ongoing support for the implementation of the 7-point Common Action Plan(CAP) endorsed last August 2002 by the Customs Cooperation Committee (CCC) of East and Central Asia. The Workshop was jointly sponsored by ADB and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The Seminar was a combination of

1. training and
2. group discussion

on three agenda items of the CAP:

1. joint-border processing
2. transit
3. ICT for information sharing and customs modernization

The training component was designed to meet the request for capacity building indicated in the Work Program agreed by the CCC Working Groups during their Joint Meeting last April 2003. The group discussion provided an opportunity to review and highlight the priorities of the Joint Work Program.

The CCC is a group of heads of customs administrations of the East and Central Asian countries joining a larger regional cooperation program supported by the ADB.

Conference Program

• English [ PDF: 98kb]
• Russian [ PDF: 121kb]

Conference Documents

• Minutes and Work Program of the Working Group Meeting
• Opening Statement, Shamshad Akhtar, Deputy Director General, Southeast Asia Department, ADB
• Issues Paper , Shamshad Akhtar, Jeffrey Liang, and Ying Qian, ADB
• Harmonization and Simplification of Customs Documentation and Procedures , Anthony Bayley, Associate Consultant, Scott Wilson, UK
• Development of Border Posts and Facilities , Anthony Bayley, Associate Consultant, Scott Wilson, UK
• Simplified Transit System , Jan Tomczyk, Project Manager, KIMEP Centre for Research and Development, Kazakhstan
• Development of Risk Management and Post Entry Audit Systems , Bienvenido Alano, President, Center for Economic Policy Research, Philippines

Participants

The seminar was coordinated by East and Central Asia Department which brought together 32 customs officials from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Related Events

Trade Facilitation & Customs Cooperation

• Customs Cooperation Committee Regional Capacity Building Seminar
  Almaty, Kazakhstan: 17-21 February 2003
• First Meeting of the Customs Cooperation Committee
  Urumqi, People's Republic of China: 20-21 August 2002
• Central Asia Customs Cooperation Meeting
  Manila, Philippines: 30-31 January 2002
• Senior Officials' Meeting on Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
  Manila, Philippines: 9-10 August 2001
  

Trade Policy Studies & Conferences

• Trade Policy and Trade Facilitation Reviews
• Azerbaijan [ PDF ]
• Uzbekistan [ PDF ]
• Post-Doha trade negotiating agenda
• Fourth Asia Development Forum
  Seoul, Korea: 3-5 November 2002
• High-Level Meeting on the WTO Trading System
  Bangkok, Thailand: 31 July-2 August 2002
• Doha Development Agenda: Implications for Developing Asia
  Hawaii, USA: 10 May 2002
• Central Asia Ministerial Conference on Economic Cooperation
  Manila, Philippines: 25-26 March 2002
• Trade Policy Issues Workshop
  Singapore: 25 February-1 March 2002
• The Third Asia Development Forum
  Bangkok, Thailand: 11-14 June 2001

Contact

East and Central Asia Department

Jeffrey Liang
Email: jliang@adb.org

Lyle Raquipiso
Email: lraquipiso@adb.org

Bing J. Teves
E-mail: fjteves@adb.org

Photo Gallery

Opening Session	Opening remarks by Ms.Shamshad Akhtar	Mr.Ying Qian of ADB, with delegates from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
Delegates from Mongolia, People's Republic of China and Tajikistan	Customs Cooperation Committee and other delegates from developing member countries	PRESS Interview with Ms.Sophia Aisagaliyera, Deputy Chairman, Customs Control Agency, Republic of Kazakhstan