Trade Facilitation Recommendations by Group
This segment of the online Compendium contains recommendations and other provisions extracted from a number of international instruments of various kinds, the objective of which is to bring about suitable solutions to facilitate trade.
The contents of this Compendium should not be considered as a substitute for use of the full text of these instruments. Reference should in all cases be made to the full text which constitutes the only valid source for official use. As and when the full text of these documents becomes available online, links will be made between the recommendations and the respective documents.
Within each Group, the recommendations are grouped into three categories:
- Formalities, i.e. the official, commercial, institutional, operational requirements
- Procedures, i.e. the steps to be followed in order to comply with formalities,or the way in which the required information reaches the party concerned
- Documents, i.e. the data carriers which contain the information
Where the subject matter of a recommendation falls into the scope of more than one group, a cross reference is shown identifying the other recommendations which may apply.
The groups are as follows:
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