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Readiness Assessment for Cross-Border Paperless Trade: Philippines

5 May 2022

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication 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 its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] The Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific and its support to the Philippines The Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (CPTA), a United Nations treaty, aims to promote cross- border paperless trade by enabling the exchange and mutual recognition of trade- related data and documents in electr. [...] In order to enhance supporting the NSW SC a TWG was created and chaired by the Commissioner of the BOC, with the Director-General of the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) as the Vice-Chair for onboarding matters and the Deputy Commissioner for the BOC’s Management Information System and Technology Group (MISTG) as the Vice-Chair for Technical Matters. [...] To address the mounting task of preventing the spread of COVID 19 and maintaining economic activities, the Government of the Philippines re-activated the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. [...] The BOC issued several regulations that allowed the unhampered processing and release of cargoes at the ports, taking into account the welfare of the stakeholders – the transacting public and its employees.

Authors

Soo Hyun Kim

Pages
261
Published in
Thailand