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New Delhi, 27 February 2026. India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has opened a public consultation on the draft Digital Trade Facilitation Bill, 2026. The core idea is simple: give statutory recognition to electronic trade documents, and set a legal basis for digital identity and trust services that can work across borders. If your transaction still depends on couriered originals, this is the type of legal shift that can change cycle time, controls, and bank comfort.
DGFT’s trade notice invites stakeholders to comment on a framework intended to make electronic trade documents legally valid and enforceable, and to support trusted digital verification and cross-border exchange of trade records. You can review the official consultation trail on DGFT’s site, including the trade notice and draft attachment: DGFT Trade Notices. The underlying document is distributed as a DGFT PDF: Trade Notice (PDF).
The bill aims to remove the grey area where documents are created electronically but still treated as second-class in court, customs, or banking operations. Think transport documents, trade documents of title, and supporting records that sit in documentary letter of credit and open-account workflows.
The draft goes beyond “documents” and addresses the trust layer: identity management, credentials, and trust services used to authenticate who signed what, when, and under which system. Reporting on the bill has highlighted explicit attention to cross-border acceptance of these services. See: Economic Times coverage.
A “paperless” law that only works inside one country is not enough for trade. The draft’s direction is to support recognition of electronic records and trust services across jurisdictions, which is where the real impact sits for trade finance.
DGFT references a broader digital trade plumbing effort under the Bharat Trade Net (BTN) framing. That matters because banks and carriers typically want a clear lane: which platforms, which standards, which control model. See DGFT’s public note referencing BTN in its trade notice trail: DGFT reference page.
In a documentary letter of credit, the bank pays against documents, not promises. Paper originals have historically “solved” two problems: uniqueness (there is one original) and transfer (the holder can endorse, pledge, or present it). Digital documents need an equivalent concept of control, otherwise banks default back to paper.
The global reference point for that legal logic is UNCITRAL’s Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR). It is built around functional equivalence: electronic records can be treated like paper if a reliable method ensures integrity and “control” in a way that maps to possession.
Electronic presentation can compress timelines in confirmed LC, discounting, and UPAS structures where payment timing is sensitive. For a practical map of instrument mechanics, keep these references handy: Trade Finance Instruments and Issuance, Confirmation, Discounting.
Banks are not allergic to digital. They are allergic to ambiguity. If the law supports an enforceable control model for electronic transferable records, the “is this pledge real” debate becomes easier, especially for inventory and in-transit collateral structures.
Digital documents reduce some classic paper games (duplicate originals, courier interception). New risks replace them: compromised credentials, weak platform governance, and fake “systems” that do not provide real control. The underwriting posture will still be the same: verify parties, verify systems, verify logistics.
Digital does not forgive sloppy data. A mismatch is still a mismatch. If you work with letters of credit, keep your rulebooks tight: UCP 600 Guide and Incoterms 2025 Guide.
India’s draft follows a trend: jurisdictions are rewriting the legal layer so electronic trade documents can be possessed, transferred, and enforced without reverting to paper. Two concrete examples:
The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 gives certain electronic trade documents the same legal treatment as paper, including the concept of possession under defined criteria.
Singapore’s Electronic Transactions (Amendment) Act 2021 adopts an MLETR-aligned approach for electronic transferable records, including provisions addressing cross-border use.
For a market read on how trade finance participants are reacting, see the practitioner-facing write-up: GTR Review coverage. Broader trade policy tailwinds also matter, since digital trade and paperless commitments show up in trade agreements too, including recent reporting on the India–EU draft text: Reuters report.
If you have a live transaction with real counterparties and a clear document set, we can sanity-check whether your structure can run on electronic documents, and what controls a lender will expect to underwrite it.
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