외교부

1. We, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible
for Trade, met in Viña del Mar, Chile from 17-18 May 2019 to discuss key
regional and global trade issues, and to advance our work for sustainable and
inclusive economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific.

2. We appreciate the participation of the Director-General of the World Trade
Organization (WTO), the Chair of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC),
the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS).

3. This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first meeting of
Ministers Responsible for Trade. That first meeting arose from members’
collective desire to enhance economic cooperation, leading to our agreement on
the Bogor Goals for free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific
region, which continue to guide our work. Since then, we have focused on giving
momentum to trade and investment liberalization.

4. In 2019, as we celebrate APEC’s thirtieth anniversary, we take pride in
what our economies have achieved together through non-binding, voluntary,
collaborative and consensus-based cooperation. We reaffirm these principles,
which continue to underpin our work, with a view to achieving a peaceful,
dynamic and prosperous Asia–Pacific region, for the benefit of all. We welcome
the APEC 2019 theme “Connecting People; Building the Future”.

Priorities for 2019

5. During our meeting, we discussed the following priorities identified by
Chile for APEC in 2019, acknowledging the progress underway in each of these
areas, and tasking officials to work towards robust outcomes, to ensure strong
deliverables by Leaders’ Week in November.

Women, SMEs and Inclusive Growth

6. Increasing participation in the economy by all is critical for economic
growth and is at the core of APEC’s work. We are committed to further advance
economic, financial and social inclusion, including efforts to foster rural
development and raise living standards. Our efforts will contribute to narrowing
the gap in economic development, consistent with the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.

7. In 2019, women continue to face multiple barriers, such as discriminatory
laws and norms, and insufficient access to formal labor markets, education, skills
development, financing and digital technologies. This results in income gaps,
constraints on mobility, and limited access to economic opportunities. Building
on the important work that has been achieved in APEC to date, we welcome the
development of a roadmap for women and inclusive growth, which will catalyze
efforts across APEC, to increase women’s economic development and
empowerment in all areas. We encourage officials to ensure that the roadmap is
comprehensive and action-oriented, with ambitious and focused targets.

8. We strongly support the ongoing work across APEC towards the
internationalization of Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (MSMEs) and
startups. This work should continue to focus on reducing barriers and trade costs
through capacity building, supporting innovation, and improving access to new
markets, information, digital tools and financing. We commit to redouble our
efforts to ensure competitive services markets, given their importance for
MSMEs.

Digital Society

9. New technologies can be engines of innovation and prosperity. It is critical
that the APEC region embraces the opportunities and address the challenges of
the digital economy. We need to work together to create an enabling and nondiscriminatory
environment that fosters innovation and allows businesses and
entrepreneurs to thrive. To do so we encourage economies to identify and reduce
unnecessary regulatory barriers, bridge gaps and improve access to the digital
economy, including through capacity building. We note the importance of
facilitating the free flow of information and data, while recognizing applicable
domestic laws and regulations. We welcome our business community’s call for
APEC to take urgent action to fully harness the potential of the digital economy.

10. We call on officials to start working on a comprehensive work program for
the implementation of all elements of the APEC Internet and Digital Economy
Roadmap and look forward to the APEC Economic Policy Report 2019 “Structural
Reform and Digital Economy”, so that APEC can report on progress to Leaders
by the end of the year.

Integration 4.0

11. The rapidly changing business climate, driven by the development and
application of new technologies, has led to a fourth industrial revolution. In this
context, we reaffirm the importance of predictable and transparent, nondiscriminatory
frameworks for trade and investment. We support the focus this
year on trade facilitation, global value chains, as well as smart trade, borders
and logistics. We encourage further efforts, especially to ensure that MSMEs
benefit from these initiatives.

12. We encourage work under the APEC Connectivity Blueprint in order to
enhance physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity in the APEC
region. We stress the importance of improving connectivity through quality
infrastructure development based upon relevant APEC work. We recognize the
work to advance subregional, rural and remote areas connectivity.

13. It is important that we improve our understanding of global value chains,
including through capacity building activities, allowing us to better design and
implement policies that support an enabling environment for trade and
investment, especially for MSMEs.

Sustainable Growth

14. We recognize that the viability of global trade depends on the protection
of ecosystems and the sustainable development of natural resources supporting
our economies and societies, and we are committed to strengthening our
cooperation in this regard.

15. The Pacific Ocean unites us, and we note the increasingly adverse impact
of marine debris, the unsustainable use of fisheries and aquaculture resources,
and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing on fish stocks, the marine
environment, food security, and livelihoods. We encourage additional work to
address these challenges and look forward to further discussion on these critical
issues during Leader’s week in November. We reiterate our support for the work
underway in the WTO for comprehensive and effective disciplines that prohibit
certain forms of fisheries subsidies, as agreed during MC11.

Deepening APEC’s Regional Economic Integration Agenda

16. We are committed to attaining the Bogor Goals of achieving free and open
trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific through collective and individual efforts.
We welcome the progress that has been made and recognize that more work
remains to be done. Accordingly, our Leaders have repeatedly urged us to take
concrete actions in support of addressing unfinished business by the deadline of
2020.

17. We encourage initiatives that support a final push towards the Bogor Goals
and urge officials to identify additional areas of work. In this regard, we welcome
the special focus on services proposed this year and we reiterate our
commitment to additional actions to increase our economies’ competitiveness in
the services sector by 2025.

18. We strongly urge economies to reduce tariffs under APEC’s list of
Environmental Goods as soon as possible. APEC economies that currently
participate in the Information Technology Agreement expansion agree to work
together to achieve broader participation.

19. We noted the important task ahead of defining an ambitious post-2020
vision, building on APEC's cornerstone of free and open trade and investment.
We take note and appreciate the work of the APEC Vision Group and look forward
to the completion of its report in November 2019 as a significant contribution to
this process.

20. In 2004 in Chile, ABAC proposed a study on the feasibility of a Free Trade
Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). Since then, the concept of FTAAP as a longterm
contribution to APEC’s regional integration agenda has been progressing
through work programs within APEC and trade agreements among APEC
economies. In this connection, we urge members to work constructively to
pursue further work, including in all areas identified by economies, to advance
the Lima Declaration. Recognizing APEC’s role as an incubator of ideas, we
highlight the importance of capacity building initiatives and information sharing
mechanisms, which will also enhance APEC economies’ ability to participate in
high quality, comprehensive free trade agreements in the future.

Advancing APEC’s support for the WTO

21. During our meeting, we noted a report from the WTO Director-General
Mr. Roberto Azevêdo on current developments in international trade and the
WTO.

22. International trade is important for productivity, innovation, job creation,
and development. APEC Economies recognize the contributions that the WTO
has made to this end. We affirm the importance of transparent and nondiscriminatory,
agreed upon rules in the WTO, which can enhance market
predictability, enable business confidence, and allow trade to flow. Recognizing
the WTO’s role in this regard, we agree that action is necessary to improve its
functioning.

23. We task our officials to accelerate practical and concrete areas of work
that can advance APEC’s support for the WTO’s work, including in areas such as
capacity building initiatives for transparency and notifications, and the
implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement. In this regard we
acknowledge APEC’s work on domestic regulation of services, investment
facilitation and MSMEs. We acknowledge progress on negotiations in Geneva on
electronic commerce and we encourage initiatives in APEC that can contribute
to this work.

24. We recognize our business community’s call for APEC to continue
supporting the multilateral trading system. We encourage continued
constructive engagement on WTO issues, including in the lead-up to the twelfth
WTO Ministerial Conference in Nur-Sultan.

Final points

25. Taking note of the recent terrorist attacks, including the use of the internet
for terrorist purposes, we recognize the need to take into account broader efforts
by government, the private sector and other segments of society, to address
terrorist content online.

26. We reaffirmed the importance of strengthening and revitalizing APEC’s
engagement with the private sector, including with ABAC. We encourage ABAC
to engage with relevant stakeholders, including MSMEs, to ensure it can continue
to represent the broader business community.

27. We took the opportunity to welcome the new Executive Director of the
APEC Secretariat, Tan Sri Dr. Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria and we wish her success
in her role.

28. We acknowledge the Chair H.E. Roberto Ampuero E., Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Chile, and we thank the cities of Viña del Mar and Valparaíso for their
hospitality.
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