This is the latest ‘buzz-word’ in international trade circles…….it reinforces the view (and fact) that trade is moving further away from the notion of physical documents. Paperfreetrade.eu provides a concise and holistic view of European and American circles. For many, most of the content is not exactly new. South African traders will indeed be familiar with most of the principles but is is all the same interetsing to note how these are being packaged and implemented internationally. SARS, has a number of unique technological offerings planned for forthcoming phases of the Customs Modernisation Programme which will augment the very same ‘paperfree’ principles – watch this space.