CBP has identified 14 use cases for blockchain as part of its pilot of the technology, according to Kati Suominen, founder and CEO of Nextrade Group and the lead speaker at a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussion on harnessing the technology. But the U.S. is not out front in adopting blockchain technology, either in business or in government, she said. Fifteen countries in Africa are using blockchain in customs, and Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, South Korea and Singapore are all experimenting with it as well.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Upcoming changes to Canadian border processes will be a “game changer” for the clearance process, Kim Campbell of Mkmarin Trade Services said on Oct. 20. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) is set to be implemented by the end of 2020, allowing e-commerce customers to fill out their own customs declarations and eliminating the entry process for commercial importers, she said, speaking at the Western Cargo Conference. Other initiatives will allow truck cargo to cross the border without stopping, through the use of radio frequency ID tags and facial recognition software, she said.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- CBP recently began its “360 degree” assessment of lessons learned from its “proof of concept” on the use of blockchain technology for NAFTA and CAFTA certificates of origin, said Vincent Annunziato, director of CBP’s Business Transformation and Innovation office, at the Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON) on Oct. 19. A report on the test should be done in November, though there’s no word yet on how the report will be released.
CBP “just concluded” its proof-of-concept testing of the use of blockchain technology in NAFTA and CAFTA certificate of origin processes, Celeste Catano of BluJay Solutions said at the Oct. 3 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. CBP and trade community participants in the test have begun a set of meetings to discuss the results and make a recommendation on how to proceed, with the comment process set to wrap up by Oct. 19, said Vincent Annunziato, acting director of CBP’s Business Transformation and Innovation Division. One thing discussions will focus on is whether blockchain technology is useful in the trade environment and, before getting into the evaluation phase, “I think we can say that it was successful and it does look like something that we should be able to do going forward,” Catano said.
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CBP is "conducting integration testing to prove compatibility of a blockchain platform with multiple partner systems," according to an update from the emerging technologies working group ahead of the Oct. 3 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting. CBP began an initial "proof of concept" in September as the agency considers the potential for the distributed ledger technology (see 1808200040). "Portions of the NAFTA / CAFTA import process, specifically verification of intellectual property and relationships between licensees and licensors, have been identified as good candidates for improvement if a transition to a more digitized, decentralized system is undertaken," it said.
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It's odd to be talking about blockchain in terms of regulatory policy, said Aaron Arnold, a fellow at Harvard University who studies trade controls to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "The technology itself is meant to disintermediate actors," he said during a panel on blockchain and trade security at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank that focuses on security.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Oct. 3 in Washington, CBP said in a notice.
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