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Advancing Global Trade Security: Collaborative Standards for Facilitating Secure Supply Chains

Explore the need for customs standards, risk assessment, quality control, and the role of business partnerships in ensuring a secure and efficient supply chain. Learn about the WCO's efforts to develop guidelines and models for secure trade practices.

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Advancing Global Trade Security: Collaborative Standards for Facilitating Secure Supply Chains

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  1. Facilitating Trade in a Secure EnvironmentTowards a collaborative approach to global trade facilitation and security standards UNECE/WCO 13-14 November 2003, Geneva Kunio Mikuriya Deputy Secretary General, WCO

  2. Need for standards from customs’ view • Risk assessment based on information supplied at the earliest stage of supply chain, normally by those who generate information • Quality control of secure supply chain based on physical and procedural requirements (proper documentation, tracking and trace, physical security of premises etc.)

  3. Prerequisites • Multilateral approach, consistent with existing bilateral, regional approaches • Two sides of the same coin: the efficient and effective Customs procedures • Based on existing international standards • Voluntary compliance by business through extensive consultation with trade, customs and other international organizations

  4. WCO ’s efforts • ACI Guidelines; information requirements and Customs Business Processes • Business Partnership Guidelines; physical and procedural requirement and provide link to ACI Guidelines • Secure and predictable supply chain with facilitative effects

  5. ACI Guidelines • Customs Data Model; a standardized set of data elements transferred in electronic format, based on UNTDED and UN Layout Keys • Unique Consignment Reference (UCR); origin-to-end identification numbering system of consignment, based on existing business standard (ISO) • Almost completed but need practice and feed-back for further improvement (a living document)

  6. Business Partnership Guidelines • Guidelines leading to standards • High-level principles agreed in June Council sessions • Framework for industry-specific guidelines developed and available • Several business organizations volunteered develop examples of Guidelines for their sector

  7. Standard setting for Business • A collaborative approach involving all players necessary • WCO work based on existing standards and inputs from UN agencies, other governmental and non-governmental international organizations • All standard setting at different forums should take into account the emerging WCO standards and guidelines, as they will affect all players in the supply chain

  8. Export Import Supply Chain Security 30th June 2004! Factory Port Port Ship Ship Truck Container terminal Container terminal Barge Storage area Container terminal Container terminal ISPS Code Ship Ship Truck Standards for Business incorporating ACI guidelines Business Partnership Guidelines Final Destination

  9. Wayforward • WCO Supports standard setting for business • An ISO standard could also be useful in the future • Need for involvement and consultation of all stakeholders, especially the business sector to assure their voluntary compliance with customs requirement • Partnership based on trust is the key for the way forward (Brian Parkinson, ICS, at the WCO Task Force, Oct. 2003)

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