Digitalization of Trade Facilitation Process as the Foundation for Sustainable Agricultural Trade Facilitation
Abstract The aim of this paper is pointing out the connection between three main pillars of Trade Facilitation, General, Digital and Sustainable, with a special focus on Agricultural Trade Facilitation as one of three elements of the Sustainable pillar as its sub-group. Data used in this paper confirm improvements in these new issues of the Trade Facilitation during the last few years, highlighting improvements which made Trade Facilitation more sustainable and inclusive. They also confirm the relation between both, Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation. Digitalization could bring Sustainable groups towards facilitating their market access and their inclusion into global supply chains, whether they`re about Agricultural products, SMEs, or, Women in trade. The movement of Agricultural products, especially perishable ones is more important in comparison with products of other two sub-groups from Sustainable pillar. The main elements for the Agricultural Trade Facilitation are perishable goods and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary certification. In parallel, digitalization in Agricultural Trade Facilitation implies trade procedures, connected with the Single Window concept. Therefore, Digitalization is constantly enhancing transparency and facilitating trade in agriculture products.
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2024
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Keywords: Trade facilitation, sustainable trade facilitation, agricultural trade facilitation, digitalization