Customs
A vision of end-to-end digital customs clearance
Customs clearance in foreign trade is a highly regulated area, shaped by national and EU regulations, as well as through various requirements of the respective third countries. The large number of involved international players often do not have a common level of knowledge about the progress of customs clearance and the logistics process. Overall, customs clearance is (still) heavily paper-based.
Blockchain-Technology is able to provide a remedy. The development project BORDER by Blockchain Europe and its development and conceptualizations partners AEB SE and Adient, as well as the Working Group Customs and Blockchain, demonstrate this.
“Due to the numerous parties involved in the customs process, the currently paper-based procedure for the export accompanying document often causes a significant amount of work. This is precisely where our project aims to come in and digitize the export accompanying document throughout the entire process.”
Dr. Ulrich Lison | Foreign Trade Expert and Member of the AEB – Board of Directors
“In foreign trade, it is not (yet) possible to go completely without paper. Additionally, there is a information asymmetry between customs authorities and supply chain players. To change that, we’re integrating international customs and logistics processes using blockchain technology.”
Roman Koller | Blockchain Europe
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New Working Group Dedicated to Blockchain-based Customs Processing
Initiated by the "UnConference Blockchain Europe" in April 2021, a multi-national "Working Group Customs and Blockchain" came together. The current 24 members deal with the future application possibilities of blockchain technology in...
Blockchain paves the way to end-to-end digital customs processing
Stuttgart / Dortmund, May 11, 2021 – Stuttgart-based software provider AEB SE and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML are working together on a blockchain-based customs solution. The goal of the project, which is...
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