African Regional Meeting on Implementation of the WHO FCTC

Senegal, 9-12 October 2012

Ralf PetersRalf.Peters@unctad.org

UNCTAD is the focal point, within the United Nations system, for the integrated treatment of trade and development and interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment, services and sustainable development.

Areas of collaborationUNCTAD

Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control

• Value Chain Analysis• International investment agreements• TRIPS• Trade

Article 17 (Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities)

• Collaborate with key partners, including international agencies to conduct research and analysis of the tobacco supply chain “from the farm to the cigarette’’

• Conduct a policy review of tobacco-producing developing countries (including diversification options)

Value Chain Analysis and Diversification

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Cross cutting issuesInternational investment agreements

Development•Raise awareness among developing country policymakers about the possible interaction between international investment agreements and the Convention•Assist in providing sustainable approaches to the (re)negotiation and interpretation of international investment agreementsTrade (and investment) •Promote coherence between international investment agreements and other public policies/bodies of international law (e.g., the Convention)

Cross cutting issuesAdditional: Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights

Activities•We regularly follow related discussions in the WTO TRIPS Council (Australia was taken to WTO dispute settlement proceedings by Honduras and Ukraine). •Contribute to a meeting organized earlier this year by WHO and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control regarding the intellectual property implications of the Australian plain packaging legislation.•Being available for advisory services for interested governments regarding the TRIPS implications of domestic tobacco legislation for the promotion of public health (depending on availability of funding).

Cross cutting issuesAnalysis on trade and tobacco control

Trade (and investment) UNCTAD and World Trade Organization•Update analysis on trade and tobacco control (e.g., implications of existing and new agreements, regional blocks, etc.). This will be in the report to the Conference of the Parties at its fifth session

Articles 20, 21 and 22 (Research, surveillance and exchange ofinformation; Reporting and exchange of information; and Cooperation in the scientific, technical and legal fields and provision of related expertise)

Share databases and information on:•Developing trade information systems on tobacco jointly with WHO•Trade indicators such as export revenue •Trade data (all bilateral official trade data)•Border measures, including import tariffs, tariff-rate quotas•Non-tariff measures

Trade data quality is generally goodGaps are closedDisaggregation into 9 categories

Tobacco and manufactured tobacco suTobacco, not stemmed/strippedTobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/sTobacco refuseCigars, cheroots and cigarillos, coCigarettes containing tobaccoOtherSmoking tobacco, whether or not conOther :-- Homogenised or reconstituOther

Share of exports in tobacco (raw and processed) in total merchandise exports

Value of exports of the world and Africa in US$1’000

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