Information technology and e-commerce
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Global digital identity
Identity and trust lie at the core of each trade interaction. As global value chains become increasingly digital, organizations need to ensure that they can trust the digital identity of legal and physical persons1 or products they deal with, and can efficiently link that digital identity with a real organization, specific product or device (see Box 17).
Global trade rules access and computational law
Businesses operate in an environment of increasing legal complexity. At a global level, trade compliance is particularly time consuming and costly, as enterprises need to be aware of and comply with rules under different international agreements as well as meet their contractual obligations.
How to use this toolkit
This toolkit aims at raising awareness of the technical and legal tools to be called upon to adopt cross-border paperless trade systems and national single windows (NSWs).
Introduction
Using electronic documents and transactions can speed up and increase trade. Electronic messages can eliminate the need to enter data into a computer manually at each supply chain checkpoint and can provide opportunities for the potential reuse of data.
Recommendations
This section provides a set of recommendations regarding the introduction and scaling up of technologies by Customs. These recommendations were provided by Customs, the private sector and academia in discussions held on different occasions in the last four years, including at the October 2017 Permanent Technical Committee, the annual dialogue held between the Private Sector Consultative Group and the Policy Commission in June 2018, the WCO technology conferences and regional workshops on disruptive technologies held in 2021 and 2022, the WTO 2018 research workshop and the 2019 and 2021 Global Trade and Blockchain Forums.
Introducción
El uso de documentos y transacciones electrónicos puede acelerar y aumentar el comercio. Los mensajes electrónicos pueden eliminar la necesidad de introducir datos en un ordenador manualmente en cada puesto de control de la cadena de suministro y posibilitan la reutilización de los datos.