INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT · X-20

Philippines and the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific

Philippines became bound on 2019-12-23, by accession, the 2nd state to do so.

Treaty

Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific

State

Philippines

Signed

not signed

Became bound

2019-12-23 — by accession

Treaty in force since

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".

Depositary record

United Nations Treaty Collection

Accession is not ratification. A state accedes to a treaty it never signed, so there is no signature date to show and none is missing. The two are often written as though interchangeable; the record does not treat them that way, so neither does this page.

Where this sits

• 2 in order of becoming party
• 15 states bound in total
• Bang treaty adopted

Order is by the date the depositary records, and states that became bound on the same day share a position — eleven states became party to the Charter on 24 October 1945 and none of them was eleventh.

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