Conventions

International Conventions are important Trade Facilitation Instruments as they are providing a firm legal framework for trade facilitation measures. Some of the most relevant international conventions in this field are:

• The Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention), 1944
• The Convention of Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL Convention), 1965
  
• The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, (Montreal Convention), 1999
  
• The Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention), 1975
• The Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, 2018
• The International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, 1982
• The International Convention on the Harmonized System (HS Convention), 1988
• The International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention), 1999
  
• The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (Electronic Communication Convention), 2005
• The WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation, 2013
• The WTO Valuation Agreement, 1994