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Wednesday 17 November, 2010

Welcome remarks by Raed Safadi, TAD Deputy Director;

The Chair: John Dawson, University of Edinburgh; and by the OECD Secretariat

 

Setting the scene
Keynote speech on the distribution sector by the Chair
Presentation: Introduction

Session I: Distribution services (Food)

 

Presentation of the OECD paper by Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton
Presentation: The Globalization of Trade in Retail Services

 

Panelists:

• Jean Bergevin, EC Internal Market and Services
  Presentation: Assessing Restrictions to the Development of Retail Service Trade
• Adam Hemphill, Walmart
  Presentation:  Walmart Stores 
• Marc Jansen, Dutch food retail trade association (CBL)
  Presentation: Services Trade Restrictiveness Index: A Consumers Benefit
• Matthew Reisman, US International Trade Commission
  Presentation: The USITC's Research on Barriers to Trade in Retail Services        

Discussion

 

Background documents for this session:

• Paper: Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade, Matthew Reisman
• The Globalization of Trade in Retail Services, Neil Wrigley and Michelle Lowe
• Retail Market Monitoring Report: “Towards more efficient and fairer retail services in the internal market for 2020”, submitted by Jean Bergevin, report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
• Commission Staff Working Document on Retail Services in the Internal Market, submitted by Jean Bergevin, accompanying document to the Report on Retail Market Monitoring: "Towards more efficient and fairer retail services in the internal market for 2020"
  

Session II: Presentation of available indicators of restrictiveness in distribution

 

The World Bank’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
     Batshur Gootiiz and Ingo Borchert, World Bank
     Presentation: The WB Database on Retail Policy and Restrictiveness in 102 Countries

 

The US International Trade Commission Database on Non-tariff Measures, retail services
     Richard Brown, US ITC
     Presentation: Retailing NTM Database

Discussion

 

Session III: Distribution Services (Non-Food)

Panelists:

• Martin Roy, WTO
  Presentation: Retailing Services under the GATS 
• Ralph Kamphöner, EuroCommerce
  Presentation: Non-Food: European Commerce Perspectives 
• Matthew Bennett, UK Office of Fair Trading
  Presentation: Competition Policy in Distribution Services 
• Antoine de Riedmatten, Deloitte
  Presentation: Global Expansion 

 

Discussion

 

 

Session IV: Breakout groups: Food and non-food distribution services

 

 

Additional background documents

 

 

• Paper: Final Report for the Distribution Services Study (and Paper: Annexes to Final Report for the Distribution Services Study), Julian Arkell 
• Distribution services for Development: Trade Aspects, Julian Arkell
    - extract from International Trade in Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries, edited by Olivier Cattaneo, Michael Engman, Sebastián Sáez and Robert M. Stern, published by World Bank.
• Market Structure in the Distribution Sector and Merchandise Trade, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Enrico Pinali and Massimo Geloso Grosso (OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 68)
• Revisiting Retail Globalisation, Deloitte

 

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