ASEAN is easing the flow of trade within the region. It is harmonizing customs procedures and product standards. It is drawing up implementing protocols for the framework agreement on goods in transit. It is working out agreements on multi-modal transport and inter-state transport. Talks are going on or about to start on freeing up trade in services in several sectors. ASEAN in developing e-ASEAN, which is intended to harness, cooperatively, information and communications technology to make trade more efficient and less expensive within countries, within the region and with the world outside.