The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to analyse the costs that trade facilitation processes within its control impose on businesses seeking to import and export products to and from Australia.
As part of this project, Deloitte Access Economics is also seeking to identify the main bottlenecks in the current process, and model the economic benefits associated with reducing the associated costs. For the purposes of this project, trade facilitation is defined as the simplification and harmonisation of trade procedures to lower cross-border transaction costs (and does not extend to a consideration of how hard infrastructure such as transport infrastructure could improve trade flows).
As part of the project, Deloitte Access Economics will be engaging with the Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) and Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA) in Canberra on 16 March 2017 to identify:
the main barriers to trade associated with trade facilitation processes;
the size of financial and time costs associated with trade facilitation processes; and
any potential areas in which trade facilitation processes can be improved
Please refer attached for further detail.
To share your views, please join us in an open forum (webinar) at 2:00 – 3:00pm AEST on Monday 14 March 2017 – alternatively, please provide comment to me at pzalai@FTAlliance.com.au or 02 9975 1878 by 5:00pm AEST, 15 March 2017.
Paul Zalai – FTA / APSA