The governance of international trade incurs major costs, including to the environment. Global supply chains are complex, and traditionally involve the printing, dispatching, processing, exchanging, and ultimately discarding of vast quantities of paper documents. Trade facilitation, and...

This chapter highlights selected quantitative information from the country case studies, a summary of results of an international expert survey on the implementation costs of selected trade facilifation measures, and their sequencing.

This chapter provides a brief overview of the relevant literature

This chapter is based on the case studies of Bangladesh, China, India, Indoesnia and Nepal

This chapter concludes case studies on trade facilitation measures implementation in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, and Nepal

This chapter asesses private sector perception of the level of implementation of various trade facilitation measures