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2023 Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO)

Preparation for the October 2023 CRO meeting for the Less Developed Countries World Trade Organization Group

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October 03 2023

10:00 - 17:00 CEST

Cappella, Villa Schifanoia - Chapel

Oct 04 2023

10:00 - 17:30 CEST

Cappella, Villa Schifanoia - Chapel

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An executive workshop, co-organised with UNCTAD, aiming to prepare for the 2023 CRO meeting and the empowerment of the LDC WTO Group

The executive workshop on Preparation for the October 2023 Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO) Meeting for Less Developed Countries (LDC) World Trade Organisation (WTO) Group is a two-day intensive executive workshop on rules of origin entirely dedicated to developing the interventions of the WTO LDC Group at the next CRO scheduled to take place on October 2023. The workshop is part of the agreed LDC work programme on rules of origin and a follow up to the previous workshop carried out in May 2023 to prepare WTO LDC delegates to actively participate in multilateral deliberations at the WTO Committee on Rules of Origin and other negotiating fora.

The workshop provides an overview of the status of the negotiations in the CRO about the report to 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) and discusses the draft of the WTO LDC Group for the Report of the CRO to MC13 (based on the LDC work programme), which will need to be negotiated with other WTO members, to be finalised and presented to MC13. 

The event includes presentations and interactive discussions, preparing for the CRO meetings on the road towards MC13. Participants will also learn about requirements for the assessment of sufficient or substantial transformation, documentary requirements, convergence on product specific rules of origin, and lessons learned from the use of the notification of data on utilisation rates. The presenters are officials of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and CRO but the focus of the workshop is to enable the LDCs WTO Group to strengthen their position a be better prepared to put forward the different elements and content of the draft report. 

By invitation only.

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