Trade, Investment and Innovation Working Paper Series

The designation employed and the presentation of the material in the Working Paper do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] Switching to electronic documents is expected to increase the efficiency of the whole process by reducing the volume of paperwork, hence reducing the working hours for manual preparation and processing of the documents. [...] For each trade process, the number of main documents and supporting documents and their number of pages, total number of people in the exporter’s offices, total number of people involved in preparation and handling of paper documents, total journey time for the collection or submission of documents, and the electricity and water usage from the monthly bills of the exporter’s offices were recorded. [...] For the calculation of waste generation from paper production and from office premises, the number of pages of paper utilized and the number of people 29 involved in each trade process was recorded. [...] For the calculation of water consumption in the office, data on monthly water bills and the total number of employees in the exporters’ offices were collected through the survey questionnaire, and the per capita water consumption is deduced.