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The Permanent Secretariat of SELA, together with the Institute for Promotion of Investments and Exports – Uruguay XXI, of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, will hold the VII Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting on International Trade Single Windows, which will focus on reviewing the strategic role of Single Windows in the context of the recent WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation and the trade integration mechanisms in the region. In addition, a review will be made of the progress in the project for Interoperability of Single Windows of UN/CEFACT, the B2G relationship and the debate and dissemination of advances in Latin American and Caribbean Single Windows over the past year.