Research on Legal Regulations for Facilitating Cross border Paperless Trade in China

Abstract

The first comprehensive regulation of paperless trade facilitation, Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, came into effect on February 21, 2021. This agreement injects new vitality into China's "high-level opening up to the outside world, opening up new prospects for win-win cooperation". How to use modern information technologies such as the Internet to facilitate paperless trade, promote high-level trade development, increase trade opportunities, and enhance international trade competitiveness is worth pondering. In the process of Paperless office cross-border trade, there are difficulties such as the lack of "single window" construction, and the lack of deepening regional trade coordination and cooperation. In view of this, it is necessary to strengthen the top-level design of the legal and policy framework for paperless trade facilitation, unify cross-border data exchange standards, promote electronic data interconnection and cross-border mutual recognition, strengthen regional coordination and cooperation in paperless trade, and other relevant suggestions to promote China's high-level opening-up to the outside world.