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This chapter attempts to review various initiatives taken at the individual country level as well as bilateral, regional and global levels to facilitate paperless trade. These initiatives range from putting single window systems in place to electronic exchanges of cross-border trade data and documentation for administration, trade and commerce. Such a review is important as it provides important lessons for formulating a viable regional arrangement for facilitating paperless trade. It should be noted that while several successful initiatives have been taken at the country level to establish single window systems, there are relatively few examples of such arrangements for cross-border exchanges of information in a paperless mode. Some international organizations, such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group, have suggested a step-by-step move towards cross-border paperless trade in which the first step should be to develop a national Single Window. The next step should be to interlink these national Single Windows to facilitate cross-border paperless exchanges of information and documentation. However, in practice, several different models have been followed for cross-border paperless trade.

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