KYIV, July 23 – A delegation from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade presented proposals for the text of a future World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on e-commerce, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported on the results of a meeting of co-authors of a joint statement by WTO members in Geneva on July 15-17.

According to the Ministry, the proposals concerned, in particular, paperless trade, the introduction of which would allow reducing the cost of delivering goods by reducing communication costs and processing paper documents, speeding up payments; open government data; providing free access to the Internet.