International Trade

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International Trade Business Process Group (TBG)

• Mike Doran Sue Probert
• TBG Vice-Chairs

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CONTENTS

• TBG Mandate
• Progress in
• Trade Facilitation
• Business Process Modelling
• e-Business Standards Core Components
• Projects Update
• Items for Plenary Noting
• Other Issues

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TBGs Mandate (Summary)

• The purpose of the TBG is to be responsible for
  the simplification of international trade
  procedures, business and governmental process
  analysis, and best practices, using the UN/CEFACT
  Modelling Methodology, where appropriate, to
  support the development of trade facilitation
  e-Business
• solutions. (TRADE/CEFACT/2004/11/Add.4)

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Progress in Trade Facilitation

• A draft UNECE Recommendation Guidelines on the
  Single Window
• A revised UNECE Recommendation 12 - Measures to
  Facilitate Maritime Transport Documents
  Procedures (a very constructive joint meeting
  took place at the Bonn Forum)
• A Benchmarking concept paper
• e-CERT Project launched during the Bonn Forum

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Progress in Modelling Business Processes

• TBG Business Domain Groups (TBG1-13) are
  modelling their industry specific business
  processes using facilitators and modellers who
  are either, in-house trained, or, provided by
  interested parties or organisations (SWIFT, EAN
  etc). A number of joint and intersectorial
  projects are running.
• TBG14s Catalog of Common Business Processes due
  to go out for public review
• TBG 15 is being helped by TBG 14 on two projects,
  the International Trade Facilitation
  International Trade Facilitation and Security
  Models

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TBG6 ebXML Projects (adopted in March 2002 -
Barcelona Meeting)
TBG
(International Trade and Business Processes Group)
TBG5

TBG18
TBG1
TBG6
( Architecture, Engineering Construction Domain
)
TBG2
e-Tendering Standards Project
TBG3
e-Catalog Standard Dictionary for Construction
products (SDC)
TBG4
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Progress in e-Business Standards Core
Components

• All TBG Domain Working Groups are defining Core
  Components and working through TBG17 to harmonise
  them with other sectors
• TBG17
• Has compiled a comprehensive Submissions Guide
• Is developing a set of automated harmonisation
  techniques based on a standards tool provided to
  TBG as a contribution in kind
• Issued in March 2004 an initial TBG17 library of
  draft core components for public review
• ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE MoU Management Group supports
  TBG17

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Projects Update
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Item for Plenary Noting - 1

• At the Bonn Forum meeting in March 2004, the TBG
  membership, en masse, expressed concerns with
  regards to the CSG proposals for the future
  UN/CEFACT management structure. As a result a
  paper was written expressing an alternative set
  of proposals.
• (Agenda Item 9 - TRADE/CEFACT/2004/35/rev.1)
• TBG request that the UN/CEFACT delegations
  consider this contribution seriously as it
  represents the requirements of the majority of
  the Forum membership.

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UN/CEFACT Management Structure
PLENARY Plenary Bureau
UN/CEFACT Plenary
Plenary Layer
FORUM MANAGEMENT GROUP
Forum Management Layer
Permanent Group
Permanent Group
Permanent Group
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Item for Plenary Noting - 2

• TBG requests that all delegations promote the
  following ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE MoU Management Group
  Resolutions as widely as possible
• Resolution 04/01 April 2004
• MoU/MG confirms its Resolution 03/03 in support
  of the CCTS (v2.01) and encourages all
  organizations developing e-business content to
  harmonize that content through the UN/CEFACT TBG
  17 (Harmonization) working group.
• Resolution 03/03 (5.3)
• The MoU MG encourages the concerned parties to
  develop a project plan to address harmonization
  of content. The MoU MG welcomes Core Components
  Technical Specification (CCTS) version 2.01 and
  encourage all organizations developing e-business
  content to harmonize their efforts using that
  specification.

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Item for Plenary Noting - 3

• TBG has continued to make significant progress
  largely due to to the voluntary efforts of its
  individual expert members supported by generous
  contributions in kind of tools and other
  resources from supporting organisations.
• However, the future TBG Workplan will be very
  challenging and in order to ensure success the
  appointment of an SSP to oversee and further
  support the Forum activities is considered
  essential.

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Other Issues

• TBG welcome the Bonn ratification of the first
  set of cross group project working procedures
  agreed between TBG/ICG and ATG. However, it is
  now important to include TMG
• Further, TBG believe that it is now crucial to
  agree a common set of operational procedures at
  Forum management level and that this should be a
  very high priority item for the new Forum
  management structure to address.

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UN/CEFACT
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR
GLOBAL BUSINESS.