trade regulations themselves aside this may be attributed in part to the fact that regulatory procedures are not aligned with these new ways of doing business enabling trade control agencies to take advantage of the fact that the original data generated and used by private sector stakeholders are now almost always in electronic form would go a long way in facilitating trade and increasing regulatory compliance development of mobile applications for completion of regulatory procedures may also be actively considered as unlike computers these devices have become ubiquitous in even the least developed countries of the region finally establishing publicprivate partnerships between trade control agencies and the ecommerce epayment andor elogistics platforms may be explored to transfer part of the regulatory control functions to these private service sector providers taking advantage of their it capabilities and knowhow as well as their privileged access to data