Reducing trade costs is essential for economies to effectively use trade as an engine of growth and sustainable development. Trade facilitation plays a pivotal role in reducing trade costs, on top of existing efforts to ...

The principal aim of this publication is to analyze the current status of paperless trade implementation in the region and assess a practical approach to the facilitation of cross-border paperless trade in the Asia-Pacific ...

This book, co-published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), provides guidance for the implementation of trade facilitation measures ...

This guide for policy makers and trainers provides a succinct overview of articles of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) particularly relevant to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and identifies examples of ...

Background paper for the Global Trade Facilitation Conference 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 18-19 November 2013 <p></p> This Report is the outcome of a study undertaken as part of implementing ESCAP Resolution 68/3 ...

<p></p> Structural transformation, economic diversification and logistics are some of the issues explored in this new book from the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT). The volume's essays use ...

This note is part of a new global effort by all United Nations Regional Commissions (UNRCs), in cooperation with other interested international organizations, to provide reliable and sufficiently detailed data on the ...

The agricultural sector lies at the heart of the trade and sustainable development nexus. In the Asia-Pacific region, agricultural production provides livelihoods to close to half of the regional population. Agricultural ...

This evaluation reviewed the DA9 Project "Enhancing the contribution of preferential trade agreements to inclusive and equitable trade", a project funded under the 9th tranche of the UN Development Account. &nbsp;It was ...

This Report presents the main findings of the second UN Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation covers 120 countries and 47 measures related to the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), ...