Ep 166: Cross-border trade - UPU and WTO

Aug 7, 2019

Marek Różycki joins me to preview our seminar and workshop at Parcel+Post Expo this year, including:

• Defining the parcel locker
• Technology and lockers

Paul Donohoe, Manager Digital Economy & Trade Programme at the UPU, joins me to discuss the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA):

• What the TFA means for cross-border e-commerce
• What it means for postal operators
• How cross-border trade has been “parcelised” and what that means for border clearance
• What the UPU is doing to regarding the TFA
• Harmonisation and cost reduction in the postal channel
• Standardised forms (e.g. for customs)
• Electronic exchange of information (including CDS platform)
• EAD and the STOP Act
• The post as a trade enabling network
• The UPU’s study