The program was expected to help expand the country’s trade and increase export competitiveness through simplified, harmonized, and modernized trade processes. Its expected impact was expanded exports and increased export competitiveness—as aligned with Nepal’s 14th periodic plan for fiscal year (FY) 2017–FY2020 and with the Trade Integration Strategy, 2016. The envisaged outcome was increased access by the legitimate trade to simplified, harmonized, and modernized trade processes.