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    Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements

    Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong | June 2017
    Abstract
    Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border e-commerce. This paper examines the extent to which measures aimed at dematerializing trade data and documents and enabling their electronic exchange, commonly referred to as paperless trade measures, are included in regional trade agreements (RTAs), including in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN agreements. Such measures are most commonly found in RTA chapters on e-commerce or in those dedicated to Customs and trade facilitation. Their number is found to have doubled in RTAs between 2005-8 and 2013-16 at the global level. Most recent RTAs also contain more and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed analysis of paperless trade measures included in selected RTAs in Asia and the Pacific confirms that the coverage of RTAs of paperless trade issues has become extensive, covering increasingly specific areas such as electronic certificates of origins and sanitary and phytosanitary certificates. In that context, the new Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific can be expected to provide a useful tool for harmonized implementation of many of these provisions.
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    Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong. 2017. Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7187.
    Keywords
    Trade And Development
    Large Scale Industry
    Regional Trade
    Commerce and Industry
    Trade Negotiations
    Merchandise Trade
    Domestic Trade
    Computer Industry
    Trade Regulation
    Telecommunication Companies
    Rural Rehabilitation
    Biotechnology
    Interindustry Trade
    Industrial Policy
    Industrial Investment
    Industrial Development
    Small Scale Industry
    Medium Scale Industry
    Local Industry
    Transport Infrastructure
    Trade regulations
    Telecommunications Industry
    Computers
    Trade data interchange
    Access to markets
    Rural development
    Unfair competition
    Supply and demand
    Energy policy
    Developing countries
    Industrial organizations
    Creative industries
    Investment banking
    Microfinance
    Financial planning industry
    Infrastructure
    Manufactures
    Business failures
    Wages and labor productivity
    Microelectronics industry
    Electronic industries
    Digital electronics
    Microelectronics
    Electronic commerce
    Business enterprises
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    Mengjing, Kong
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    Trade

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