Scrapping paper documents could boost UK trade by £25bn

posted on 30th April 2021 by Eddie Saunders
Scrapping paper documents could boost UK trade by £25bn

By James Warrington, cityam.com

Digitising business and removing tens of millions of paper documents would boost small British businesses’ overseas trade by £25bn over the next four years, according to new research.

A report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), seen by City A.M., argued that UK firms were trapped in the “bureaucracies of the 16th century” and must be brought up to date for the modern age.