African Regional Meeting on Implementation of the WHO FCTC Senegal, 9-12 October 2012

1. African Regional Meeting on Implementation of the WHO FCTCSenegal, 9-12 October 2012 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. Ralf Peters Ralf.Peters@unctad.org

2. Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control Areas of collaboration UNCTAD • Value Chain Analysis • International investment agreements • TRIPS • Trade

3. 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)

4. Value Chain Analysis and Diversification Fertilizer Curing Conversion from dried Insecticide Baling to tipped and threshed tobac. Input Supply Farm Production Assembly Processing Logistics Distribution

5. iPhone value capture School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Personal Computing Industry Center, UC Irvine and Syracuse University

6. 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 agreements • Trade (and investment) • Promote coherence between international investment agreements and other public policies/bodies of international law (e.g., the Convention)

7. 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).

8. 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

9. 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

10. Trade data quality is generally goodGaps are closedDisaggregation into 9 categories

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

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

13. THANK YOU