This paper was prepared by Javier López González and Silvia Sorescu from the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. The authors thank (OECD unless specified otherwise) Andrea Andrenelli, Cemre Balaban, Koen Deconinck, John Drummond, Grégoire Garsous, Chiara Del Giovane, Alexander Jaax, Marion Jansen, and Julia Nielson as well as seminar participants to the 2024 Peru APEC Senior Officials Meeting 2 Paperless Trade Week for insightful comments and suggestions. The paper also benefited from discussions in the OECD Working Party of the Trade Committee, which agreed to make it more widely available through declassification. The authors would also like to thank Laëtitia Christophe, Michèle Patterson and Yoshie Sasabe Jeannelle for preparing this paper for publication.
The digitalisation of trade documents and processes
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