In the world there are few successful international and regional organizations such as, in which the central role played by the business sector.One of these organizations - is APEC.Explanation of abbreviations sounds like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
History
Association APEC began its existence in 1989.State-makers association had an identical desire - to raise the standard of living in the Asia-Pacific region by stimulating the economy and strengthening trade.
Home community to put the program industry and trade negotiations.Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation includes 21 states.This is Australia and Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Canada, China and the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand and Papua - New Guinea, Peru, Russia, Singapore and the United States, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines and Chile and Japan.
After Russia, Peru and Vietnam have been included in the list of countries participating in the association (in 1997), the community has introduced a 10-year moratorium on the expansion of the list of prospective members of the community.
origins of the association
Association APEC, which sounds like a transcript of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community, which was originally considered not as a union of states, as well as the economies of the tandem.The organization was originally aimed at addressing not political, but purely economic issues.APEC was formed as a forum that does not have the organizational structure and which did not stand any bureaucracy.Even today, the Secretariat of association, located in Singapore, including 23 diplomats.Each of the representatives of selected economies participating in the project.The secretariat works also hired 20 local employees.Compared with the WTO, APEC, the transcript of which is given above, is not based on the rules of the formation of organizations that provide for the availability of power to pravoprinuzhdeniyu in the event of trade disputes.
partnership
Specificity Specificity of work is to provide advice in an effort to reach consensus.The process of partnership between the states is based on the open exchange of information among countries and the public.At the heart of the community by association members are collective and individual action plans to help reach the goal of each of the states.The plan includes detailed information on 15 sectors of activity.They include tariffs and charged measures, services and investment, standards and conformance, customs procedures and the protection of intellectual property rights policies on a competitive basis, and government orders, rules, release of the goods and the direct mediation of disputes, mobility of business people, collection and concentration of information.
global role of APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation covers about 40% of the population.The total GDP of all participating countries exceeds the figure of 16 trillion dollars, which corresponds to 60% of world GDP.APEC leaders have become the main instrument for promoting open trade and initiate economic cooperation in the region.The share of member countries accounting for at least 42% of total world trade.The role of the group over the past 20 years has increased very much.Now community members actively:
- liberalized trade;
- promote any type of business;
- provide mutually beneficial economic and technical partnership;
- concerned with young people and women.
general ideas and preferences
APEC, which transcript has been given above, based on the assumption that business - is the foundation of the work and to be successful it has to be stimulated.In the early stages of community work carried out systematic consultations with the best representatives of the business segment in the Asia-Pacific region.
In 1995 it was decided to create a Business Advisory Board, which has become a key organ of the entire community.All member countries of APEC appointed to the board of at least 3 people who could express the interests of national business.Annual summits ABAC occasion to representatives of States presented general recommendations in the following areas:
- implementation of program documentation community, which is associated with the liberalization of not only trade but also investment regime;
- development of economic and technical partnerships;
- identify community positions on the problems of entrepreneurship.
Each of the reports is not formed separately by each state, and in close cooperation with experts from state structures.
first effective steps
APEC list of the countries which is constantly updated, the first productive decisions adopted in 1990-2000.Emphasis was placed on the simplification of visa procedures for businessmen of the economies of the member associations.Were reduced barriers to the free movement of not only goods, but also investment.Encourage the expansion of strategic initiatives in the sphere of business partnership.Task Force BAC start active measures for the integration of internationally acceptable standards of material.To take active steps towards capacity building and strengthening of the financial system at the international level.
Task Force of experts within the community is making every effort to enable e-commerce.It is developing a set of measures to reduce the "digital divide" between the APEC economies.List of countries participating associations allows you to see how different was the level of integration of virtual technologies in the sphere of business in different states.Today, this problem has been completely solved.
first summit in Russia
In May 2001, held its first meeting in Moscow in the framework of APEC.It was attended by 100 representatives of the business elite ATP.Russia, for its part, has initiated the creation of "APEC Business Club", which includes more than 50 large-scale domestic companies and banks, which in its activities are guided by the Asia-Pacific region.
According to the president of Russia, the country intends to take an active role in the development of community activities, including the adaptation of the country's legal framework for parallel development of democracy.The government of the great state is well aware that under the dynamically developing trade in the region, it has excellent prospects for prosperity.
Summit 2014 in Beijing
last APEC summit in November 2014 in Beijing.The talks resulted in a 24-page declaration.The leaders of the member states have decided to engage in stimulating entrepreneurial activity and to continue to work actively towards the rejection of protectionism.
APEC Summit in Beijing, became the basis for Member Firms continued to fight against the fragmentation of regional trade.The Community aims to develop Internet-financing.Moreover, it was adopted almost unanimously an agreement on the development of partnership with the countries of Africa, which in the long term is to prevent the spread of the Ebola epidemic.
APEC Summit in Beijing was focused on development issues during the crisis.Emphasis was placed on the fact that each country has to search for drivers for its economy.
