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1 Trade Facilitation in the Kyrgyz Republic Bangkok, Thailand November 2009

2 General information Area: 199,9 sq. km; Population: 5,2 mln.; Language: Kyrgyz, Russian; Currency: som (KGS); Capital: Bishkek; Neighboring states : China 858 km Kazakhstan 1051 lm Tajikistan 870 km Uzbekistan 1099 km

3 Trade dynamics in the Kyrgyz Republic Mln.US dollars Foreign trade GDP Export Import

4 35,0% 30,0% 25,0% 20,0% 15,0% 10,0% 5,0% 0,0% Main trading partners in foreign trade Main trading partners in foreign trade 31,7% 13,5% 13,3% 9,8% 7,9% 6,7% 6,2% 2,4% 2,3% 2,2% 2,2% 1,8% Russia China Other countries Kazakhstan Switzerland Uzbekistan Germany Turkey Japan France USA Ukraine Specific weight in total foreign trade

5 Factors determining the necessity of radical changes Presence of outdated forms of public administration, presence of large number of bureaucratic methods of state regulation; Duplication of functions by the state bodies on the issues of control over movement of goods and transport vehicles; Interest of business community and its involvement in optimizing foreign trade procedures; Modernization by Customs Authority.

6 Presence of political will Decree of President of the Kyrgyz Republic as of 23 October 2007 N 464 Action Plan of Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on improvement of indicators in the World Bank s rating «Doing business» Investment Council under the President

7 Results of work on reduction/optimization of documents/procedures in foreign trade Ministries/agencie s Existing maximum number of documents Number of optimized and/or reduced documents In % Certification bodies % Ministry of Health % Ministry of Agriculture State Customs Committee Chamber of Commerce Ministry of Economic Regulation % % % % Total %

8 Starting way to reforms National Concept «single window» in foreign trade, Feasibility study, State Enterprise «Center of «single window» in foreign trade arena under Ministry of Economic Regulation»; Changes in national legislation; Investment Environment Improvement Program under the Ministry; Introduction by Customs Service of Uniform Automated Information System from 2010.

9 National Council on Trade and Transport Facilitation Chairman Minister of Economic Regulation Deputy Chairman- Head of Customs Service Deputy Chairman- Minister of Transport and Communications Heads of Ministries and Agencies Representatives of business associations Head of Investment Council Secretariat under the President Representatives of donor organizations The State Enterprise «Center of SW in foreign trade arena»

10 Existing scheme at present Department of Veterinary, Chemicalization and protection of Plants, State Alcohol Inspection» under Ministry of Agriculture Department of Medicines Provision, Department of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control under Ministry of Health Trader The State Agency on Environmental Protection Ministry of Economic Regulation National Agency on Communication Customs broker National certification bodies Customs service

11 Recommended scheme Trader Department of Veterinary, Chemicalization and protection of Plants, State Alcohol Inspection» under Ministry of Agriculture Department of Medicines Provision, Department of Sanitary-Epidemiological Control under Ministry of Health The State Agency on Environmental Protection Customs broker SW Center Ministry of Economic Regulation Uniform Automated Information System of Customs Service National Agency on Communication Certification bodies

12 Development of Repository Ministry of Economic Regulation acts as a coordinator of the Project «Development of Trade Forms Repository for Kyrgyzstan as a pilot project in Central Asia», as a central coordinating agency on international trade in implementing SW Project in Kyrgyzstan.

13 Main objective of the Project: Building Kyrgyzstan s Forms Repository using UN Repository: based on Internet-technology from which any person is able to download trade forms and information on accompanying trade procedures.

14 Activities accomplished to this day: forms applied in international trade transactions in Kyrgyzstan (blank forms and completed specimens of declarations, certificates, bills of lading, licenses, etc.); information about document-based procedures; data elements required by forms (name of the cell, their definitions and semantic peculiarities); guidelines for completion of the cell; and legislative acts regulating document-based procedures and business processes; Forms and descriptions of document-based procedures were translated from Russian into English.

15 Activities accomplished to this day: Agencies involved in foreign trade reached an agreement that the final product in the form of the depositary of forms should be downloaded and saved on the web-site to be maintained by MEDT. The Ministry will also cooperate with donor community (GTZ, ADB and USAID) providing support for development of the SW Project in Kyrgyzstan; thus the Project will not be duplicated with other donor activities and project results will be used in a long-term perspective.

16 Activities accomplished to this day: Work on preparation of interactive PDF version based on 15 documents selected using the UN Tools (for ensuring compliance with the UN standards) in the PDF electronic format. For the purpose of information exchange with other countries on electronic trade forms, a hyperlink was created on the website of the Ministry of Economic Regulation with outlet to the website of the UN Economic Commission for Europe where electronic forms of trade documents are stored. It is expected (upon project termination) to develop a document describing Kyrgyzstan s experience which may be used as a model by other countries.

17 Thank you for your attention.

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