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Global trade keeps the world moving, but it’s still trapped in paper.

One transaction can involve 30 stakeholders, 240 paper copies and weeks of delays.

TWIN is the trusted trade network built to fix that. Watch how in just over 2 minutes.

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In March 2026, EU lawmakers agreed the most comprehensive reform of EU customs law since 1968.

At its center is a single EU Customs Data Hub, expected to be fully running by 2034.

From then, every business dealing with EU customs will have to use it.

The paper consignment note that travels with a truck is on its way out in the EU.

From July 2027, authorities must accept freight transport information in electronic form, under the eFTI regulation.

For transport companies, switching stays voluntary for now. But if they share it digitally, authorities can no longer insist on paper.

A 2023 UK Cabinet Office evaluation estimated that automating customs declarations from business documents could take up to £225 million a year off the administrative burden, if it cut industry's data collection costs by 40%.

Not a saving on shipping, or tariffs, or the goods themselves.

It's the cost of assembling information that already exists.

The UN's latest global survey of 174 economies puts the average implementation of trade facilitation measures at 71%.

For cross-border paperless trade, it's 49%.

Roughly half of what it takes for trade documents to move digitally between countries is in place.