Blockchain in Trade Facilitation: Sectoral challenges and examples

United Nations. Economic and Social Council

Hoy traemos a este espacio este documento de United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe Executive Committee Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Twenty-fifth session Geneva, 8–9 April 2019 Item 7 © of the provisional agenda

Summary
Blockchain-based technology can have a number of usages; but these may vary depending on the sector of activity. This document goes through various sectors which identified blockchain as potentially beneficial and goes through the advantages and challenges of its use and provides detailed information about how this technology applies to each sector.
When possible, used cases have been provided. As it is split into sectoral sections, the reader can consult just the sectoral points of view that are of interest to them.
This document is a work in progress. It is presented to the Plenary in order to share the state of advancement of this work. It does not constitute a position of any kind of UN/CEFACT or the UNECE Secretariat.

Document ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2019/INF.3 is submitted by the Bureau to the twentyfifth session of the Plenary for information.