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

2. Areas of collaboration UNCTAD Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control 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 CuringConversion from dried Insecticide Balingto tipped and threshed tobac. Input Supply Farm Production Farm Production Assembly Processing Logistics Distribution Logistics Distribution

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

6. Cross cutting issues International 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 issues Additional: 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 issues Analysis 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 of information; 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 good Gaps are closed Disaggregation into 9 categories Tobacco and manufactured tobacco su Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/s Tobacco refuse Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, co Cigarettes containing tobacco Other Smoking tobacco, whether or not con Other :-- Homogenised or reconstitu Other

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