The effects of international trade on the planet's climate and environment are manifold and complex. This makes …

and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed … analysis of paperless trade measures included in selected RTAs in Asia and the Pacific confirms that the coverage of RTAs of … Trade in Asia and the Pacific can be expected to provide a useful tool for harmonized implementation of many of these …

) Secretariat (since 1995 the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat); from 1958 to 1989, 25 RTAs were founded, from 1990 to … 2005, 116 RTAs were founded. The WTO is forecasting about 400 active RTAs in 2010. The WTO has now launched a new database … received by the WTO following notification by a WTO member that an RTA has been established. …