From Facilitation 2.0 to trade policy 3.0: Opportunities to expand and extend the rules of global trade

ABSTRACT:

• Continued expansion of the multilateral agenda through the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement and beyond, or Facilitation 2.0, represents a coherent basis for extending trade policy’s design and delivery via digital technologies.
• A more comprehensive trade facilitation agenda will help to create opportunities for the use of “technology as regulation.”
• The realisation of Facilitation 2.0 may act as a catalyst for an evolution in trade policy’s functionality.