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The Development Impact of Information Technology in Trade Facilitation, Studies in Trade and Investment No. 69
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| Author(s):
Trade and Investment Division (TID)
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| Economic Sector(s):
(1) Information and communication technologies; (2) Trade in commodities and manufactures; (3) Trade expansion, trade promotion and export development |
| ESCAP Reference
No.: ST/ESCAP/2584 |
| Division/Office:
Trade and Investment |
| Published Date:
17 January 2011 |
| Country:
{Non-country Specific Publication} |
| Hard Copy Price:
US$ 40.00
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ESCAP (2010), "The development impact of information technology in trade facilitation", Studies in Trade and Investment, No. 69, United Nations, New York.
The importance of trade facilitation has now been widely acknowledged as an effective way to enhance trade competitiveness and benefit from globalization. Streamlining trade-related procedures has increasingly involved the use of modern information technologies to automate processes, possibly making it more difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to engage in international trade. This publication brings together case studies from five different countries in Southeast and East Asia to examine the impact of IT-based trade facilitation measures already implemented, with a specific focus on their effect on small and medium sized-enterprises. The development of IT systems to streamline the trade transaction processes has typically been partial and often uncoordinated across government agencies involved in trade control, often resulting in limited gains in trade efficiency. However, as big and small and enterprises alike overwhelmingly rely on specialized third parties to complete trade procedures, IT-based trade facilitation measures are generally not found to have a discriminatory effect on smaller enterprises.
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