by Jake ClaverICC, WTO, and MLETR: taking the paper out of global trade
Here the focus is ICC, WTO, and MLETR, which move trade paperwork onto digital rails. It is concrete and sourced rather than a broad assertion.
The Paperwork Layer
This material links the ecosystem to trade documents and paperless-commerce standards. Supporting material comes from the WTO/ICC Standards Toolkit PDF and the APEC paperless trade report PDF. ICC MLETR guide, a news report from the organizations involved, states it directly:
> Everyone everywhere benefits from full visibility in the global supply chain. Using this Standards Toolkit There is a need to move digitisation beyond digital documents (e.g. PDF) whose content still needs to be processed manually at the receiving end.
The Takeaway For Market Infrastructure
This strengthens the broader institutional payments and tokenization stack because trade finance needs trusted records and interoperable workflows, giving distributed-ledger systems a practical role beyond speculation. The broader research trail also includes the UNCITRAL MLETR page and the ICC Digital Standards Initiative.
One caveat for honest use: Do not imply a direct XRP/XDC implementation unless separately sourced.
What The Source Shows
