The Progress of Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific: Enabling International Supply Chain Integration

Sung Heun Ha () and Sang Won Lim ()
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Sung Heun Ha: Korea Trade Network (KTNET)
Sang Won Lim: Trade Facilitation Unit, Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP

No 137, Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: This paper discusses on how to facilitate paperless trade for international supply chain integration in the Asia and Pacific region. The paper defines paperless trade and describes how paperless trade can improve efficiency of international supply chain, including its economic benefits. Based on the review of paperless trade initiatives and assessment of paperless trade readiness of countries in the Asia and Pacific region, the paper identifies five critical challenges in facilitating cross-border paperless trade: use of common international standards, harmonization of different legal frameworks, capacity gaps among the parties, cooperation between the public and private sectors, and lack of coordination mechanisms for cross-border data exchanges. For each challenge, the paper describes its nature and possible measures for alleviating it. In its annexes, the paper also provides implementation cases of cross-border paperless trade in the Asia and Pacific region, namely Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance (PAA) and electronic Certificate of Origin between the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China.

Keywords: Paperless trade; international supply chain integration; trade facilitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2014-10-01
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