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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

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