Key Aspects and the Status of the Newest Free-Trade Agreements: How Companies Can Benefit from them

March 27, 2018 1:45pm

Moderator

Vincent Routhier
Partner
DS Avocats (Canada)

Maria Donner Abreu
Counsellor, Regional Trade Agreements Section, Trade Policies Review Division
World Trade Organisation (Switzerland)

Anna Markitanova
International Trade Compliance Officer
Syngenta (Switzerland)

Francois Cathelineau
Head of Regional Trade Affairs EMEA
Givaudan International SA (Switzerland)

  • New information on upcoming EU-Japan agreement
  • The requirements of NAFTA, the origin of the material, making sure that your goods qualify for NAFTA
  • How CETA and its new model of certification will work in practice
  • EU- South Korea FTA and challenging customs issues including defining origin
  • FTA’s in the context of Brexit
    • What happens to the existing FTA’s and how do you manage them?
    • Potential grandfathering of existing FTA’s and issues surrounding supply chains and accumulation awards
  • Signing an FTA between the EU and the UK and the issues that arise out of this
  • Towards an EU-MERCOSUR FTA?
  • Review of existing EU FTAs in Latin America: EU-Mexico, EU-Chile
  • What’s new on EPAs
  • The WTO/RTAs relationship