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CHAPTER X
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
20. Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, 19 May 2016
Entry into force
:
20 February 2021, in accordance with article 19(1) which reads as follows: "The present Framework Agreement shall enter into force ninety (90) days after the date on which the Governments of at least five (5) ESCAP member States have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the present Framework Agreement pursuant to article 18, paragraphs 2 and 3".
Registration :
20 February 2021, No. 56556
Status :
Signatories : 5. Parties : 14
Text : Certified true copy
United Nations,Treaty Series,vol. 3377CN.597.2016.TREATIES-X.20 of 23 August 2016 (Opening for signature) and CN.598.2016.TREATIES-X.20 of 23 August 2016 (Issuance of Certified True Copies); C.N.143.2022.TREATIES-X.20 (Amendments to the Framework Agreement).
Note :
The above Agreement was adopted on 19 May 2016 by resolution 72/4 during the seventy-second session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. In accordance with its article 18, the Agreement shall be open for signature by States that are members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2017.
Participant
 Signature
 Ratification, Acceptance(A), Approval(AA), Accession(a)
Armenia
 22 Sep 2017
 
Azerbaijan
    2 Mar 2018 a
Bangladesh
 29 Aug 2017
13 Oct 2020
Cambodia
 29 Aug 2017
 
China
 29 Aug 2017
22 Nov 2020 AA
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
 29 Sep 2017
29 May 2020
Kyrgyzstan
   20 Dec 2023 a
Mongolia
   27 Jul 2022 a
Philippines
   23 Dec 2019 a
Republic of Korea
   28 Nov 2022 a
Russian Federation
   18 Aug 2023 a
Tajikistan
    8 Dec 2022 a
Timor-Leste
    5 Apr 2022 a
Turkmenistan
    4 May 2022 a
Tuvalu
    8 Dec 2022 a
Uzbekistan
    5 Nov 2024 a
Azerbaijan

Reservation:

       “In accordance with paragraph 7 of Article 17 of the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, the Republic of Azerbaijan states that it does not consider itself bound by the provisions of the Article 17 relating to conciliation.”

Declaration:

       “The Republic of Azerbaijan declares that the provisions of the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific shall not be applied by the Republic of Azerbaijan in respect of the Republic of Armenia.”
China

Declaration:

       In accordance with the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, the Government of the People’s Republic of China decides that the Agreement applies to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
Russian Federation

Declarations:

       1) In respect of paragraph 1 of Article 8 of the Framework Agreement the Russian Federation declares that, in accordance with its national legislation, it considers the notion of “substantially equivalent level of reliability” as stipulating, inter alia, legal liability for a failure to comply with obligations arising in connection with the cross-border exchange of trade-related data and documents in electronic form;

       2) The Russian Federation declares that it proceeds from the understanding of paragraph 2 of Article 12 of the Framework Agreement that “a self-assessment of their readiness” implies a self-assessment of own national legislation, and therefore the implementation schedule developed as a part of the action plan that is based on such an assessment cannot contradict national legislation.
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