Thanks to international trade – exporting flowers from Kenya to Spain, soy beans from Brazil to China and diamonds from India to the US – we have access to pretty much whatever we want whenever we want it. But the movement of goods from one place to another creates a colossal amount of bureaucratic waste. That’s because, when it comes to trade, paper is king.
It is not just the cardboard and paper that protects your Amazon parcel, so much as the reams of paper passed from person to person between countries and continents that follow each physical shipment as it crosses borders.
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