Timeline

  • Consultation to Inform Options for Implementing the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in Australia

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    Australian Government undertaking a public consultation to advise on options for implementing legislation aligned with the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR). The MLETR is a model law developed by the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). It contains a set of provisions which, if adopted into domestic law, would confirm that transferable… Read more

  • UK – Southeast Asia Trade Digitalisation Pilots

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    The UK – Southeast Asia Trade Digitalisation Pilots (TDP) is a public-private funded project that has facilitated digitalised shipments between the UK, Singapore, and Thailand. The UK government appointed the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore, with support and co-funding from industry partner LogChain, to deliver the project. The TDP builds on the success of the first… Read more

  • The EU Digital Identity Wallet: a New Tool for Remote Signing with Qualified Electronic Signatures

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    The Cloud Signature Consortium welcomes changes to the eIDASRegulation that pave the way for a new and ambitious European digitalidentity framework. At its core is the European digital identity wallet.This will provide EU citizens and residents with a secure and convenient formof digital identification to access public and private sector services throughoutthe entire EU bloc.… Read more

  • +25 projects for EBSI use cases, active in +10 sectors

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    Together, they experiment with EBSI to make information easy to verify and almost impossible to fake. This for better mobility of our citizens, better quality of our products, and better economic development of our enterprises. Source: EBSI, European Commission Read more

  • DHS Establishes United States-United Kingdom-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Cooperation Group (SCRCG) to Tackle Supply Chain Threats

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    This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Department for Business and Trade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Australia’s Department of Industry, Science, and Resources established the United States-United Kingdom-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Cooperation Group to enhance efforts to combat threats to critical supply… Read more

  • African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Legal Texts and Policy Documents

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    The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, a blueprint for attaining inclusive and sustainable development across the continent over the next 50 years. It aims to boost intra-African trade by providing a comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement among the State Parties covering trade in goods and… Read more

  • Key Trade Documents and Data Elements on the Frontlines

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    The Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is on a mission to digitalise global trade by addressing some of the biggest challenges facing governments, businesses and people today. Among the four challenges1we have identified, perhaps the steepest one is around standards for interoperability. With hundreds of electronic and digital standards… Read more

  • Achieving Growth Through Trade Digitalisation

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    With trade in goods valued at £1.7 trillion and services valued at £896 billion, trade matters to the economy. The UK has a unique opportunity to drive economic growth and improve productivity, by digitalising international trade, reducing bureaucracy, and leveraging the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (ETDA). As the first G7 economy to remove legal… Read more

  • Enabling Standards Development Through Public-Private Partnerships

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    In May 2024, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) began work on a project aimed at enhancing the practical understanding of public-private partnership (PPP) models. The work included examining their use to support standards development for CETs, the role of government in the related activities, and identifying key elements of effective collaborative mechanisms for addressing… Read more

  • EU and China launch Cross-Border Data Flow Communication Mechanism

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    On 27 August, the EU and China launched the first discussions under the new Cross-Border Data Flow Communication Mechanism.   Sabine Weyand, director-general of DG Trade at the European Commission, met with Vice-Minister Wang Jingtao of the Cyberspace Administration of China to formally launch the new mechanism.  The mechanism will focus on practical solutions to address problems… Read more