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The Commonwealth Model Law on Digital Trade offers transformative benefits for governments, businesses and consumers across member countries.

By providing legal certainty for electronic communications, records, signatures and contracts, the law eliminates long-standing barriers that have limited the adoption of paperless trade. Its implementation enables faster, more efficient transactions, reducing delays and administrative burdens, and improving overall trade performance.

These guidelines, adopted by Commonwealth Law Ministers, draw on a wealth of academic and practitioner sources and other international guidelines on electronic evidence.