There are clear economic and political imperatives to accelerate the process of legal reform to enable paperless trade that emerge from the research conducted for this report.
At present, the trend forecasts for trade across the Commonwealth to 2026 suggest that on average trade will increase by around 0.2 per cent annually. This is a potential trajectory that will not help to allow Commonwealth nations, especially in emerging countries, to recover from the pandemic quickly enough through trade.
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