Trade Facilitation in Regional Trade Agreements: Recent Trends in Asia and the Pacific

Yann Duval

No 211, Working Paper Series from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Abstract: The coverage of trade facilitation is found to have become very extensive, with the details of provisions in some agreements matching that in the draft WTO agreement on trade facilitation. Trade facilitation provisions and principles are increasingly seen to apply not only to Customs procedures but more generally, as reflected in the number of recent agreements featuring separate Trade Facilitation and/or Transparency chapters (or equivalent). Other trade facilitation measures that seem to be increasingly common include those on Automation/Use of ICT, Risk Management, Advance Ruling and Single Window. The ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) and its detailed commitment to implement a Trade Facilitation Work Programme stands out as it provides a concrete and specific way forward to ensure that progress is made towards actual implementation of the many trade facilitation measures mentioned in it.

Keywords: trade facilitation; regional trade agreements; RTA; bilateral; free trade agreements; FTA; free trade areas; customs; WTO; Asia; Pacific; paperless; single window; ICT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011-03
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