Enhancing export competitiveness through trade facilitation in Asia / Peng Bin -- Enhancing Asia's trade: transport costs matter / Prabir De -- Regional cooperation on trade and transport facilitation / Florian A. Alburo -- Institutional quality and competitiveness in the Greater Mekong subregion / Sarah Mueller -- The implication of customs modernization on export competitiveness in China / Zhang Shujie and Zhao Shilu -- Trade and transport facilitation in Cambodia / Nop Sophorndara -- Enhancing export competitiveness through trade facilitation: the experience of Sri Lanka / Suwendrani Manik Jayaratne -- Annex I: Opening statement by Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP -- Annex II: Opening statement by Mr. Diao Mingsheng , Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to ESCAP.