Facilitating Export Control and Compliance Procedures
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| Submitted date | 2023-12-15 |
| Draft Development Completion | 2025-05-30 |
| Publication Date | 2025-08-30 |
Relevant SDG targets
Project Purpose
Governments worldwide adopt policy measures to regulate cross-border trade and transit in regulated and sensitive goods. Export control measures may be introduced to protect the environment, public security, combat drugs and organised crime, and international peace and security.
The evolution and constant changes of export control regimes worldwide create significant challenges for global trade. Under export control the export, import, transit, brokerage, and technical assistance may be restricted or subject to licensing/permits. The procedures for the control measures and license regimes vary.
In the recent years the complexity of export control regimes has increased adding significant costs, uncertainty, and risks to global trade. Economic operators face increased reporting requirements, documentary requirements (end user certificates), a rapidly changing list of goods subject to export controls, application of sanctions, and variance of permit procedures.
UN/CEFACT does not have specific recommendations and standards addressing the intricacies of procedures and formalities for export control. This project aims at discussing how trade facilitation principles, such as embodied in the WTO TFA and UN/CEFACT recommendations, and how they can be used to assist economic operators complying with export control requirements.
It will take stock and map the procedures and documentary requirements resulting from export control regimes, narrowing on specific area such as dual use items and sanction regimes. It will discuss facilitation measures, such as transparency, simplification of documentary requirements, used to facilitate trade, compliance and enforcement.
The project is in line with UN/CEFACT programme of work for the TPF domain.
Project Scope
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Exit Criteria
Impact analysis
Project Team Membership and Required Functional Expertise
Geographical Focus
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Initial Contributions
• UNECE Recommendations – 1, 2, 18;
• WTO Agreements (TFA);
• Legal information collected from the Web;
• WTO 2023 WTO | International Export Regulations and Controls: Navigating the global framework beyond WTO rules