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Trade Facilitation and E-business(UN/CEFACT)

Introduction

The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is a subsidiary, intergovernmental body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which serves as a focal point within the United Nations Economic and Social Council for trade facilitation recommendations and electronic business standards. It has global membership and its members are experts from intergovernmental organizations, individual countries' authorities and also from the business community.

Key areas of work

Code List Recommendations

Trade Facilitation Recommendations

Standards

Projects

Public Reviews

UN/LOCODE Advisory Group

Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains

In focus

The 43rd UN/CEFACT Forum will take place in Rome, Italy from 10-12 December 2024. For more details, please follow the URL.

Fourth Session of the Team of Specialists on Environmental, Social and Governance Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Circular Economy, 12 December 2024, Rome, Italy.

The UN/CEFACT standards publication process is currently in progress, with several updates at various stages:

The UN/EDIFACT D24A is pending validation, undergoing careful review to ensure accuracy.
Simultaneously, the UN/CCL D23B has been completed and awaits uploading to the ECE website for public access.
Additionally, we are pleased to announce that the UN/LOCODE 2023-2 publication is now complete, providing valuable location code information. We are dedicated to delivering reliable and up-to-date standards, and we appreciate your patience as we finalize these crucial publications for the benefit of the global trade community.

UNECE website issues: broken links: UNECE Trade Facilitation publications may be experiencing unavailability issues due to broken links or URL redirects. We understand the inconvenience this may cause, and we apologize for any difficulties in accessing the necessary resources. Rest assured, our technical team is actively working to resolve these problems, and we anticipate a full resolution by the end of August. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period, and we are committed to ensuring seamless access to the publications moving forward.

Highlights

23 September 2024: This is to announce a 60-day public review until Friday, 22 November 2024 concerning the BRS on the Cargo Insurance Process. Please use the Public Comment Log provided to facilitate the preparation of a Disposition Log by the Project Team.

23 September 2024: This is to announce a 60-day public review until Friday, 22 November 2024 concerning the BRS on the Check IBAN Service Open Finance Use Case. Please use the Public Comment Log provided to facilitate the preparation of a Disposition Log by the Project Team.

19 September 2024:The Sustainability Pledge - Fashion, the sector produces 10% of global emissions. To become "green" we need investments of 30 billion euros a year until 2030. "LMF Lamiafinanza"

19 August 2024: We are currently updating the Streamlined Presentation of the UN/CEFACT Standards to release the new UN Core Component Library (CCL) Reference Data Models D23B subsets. During this time, some resources may be temporarily unavailable. We appreciate your understanding and patience!

29 July 2024: UNECE Secretariat has released the 2024-1 UN/LOCODE directory.

9 July 2024: We are pleased to announce a joint Call to Action together with the International Chamber of Commerce's Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) aimed at accelerating the adoption of globally interoperable standards essential for achieving digital trade worldwide. The Call to Action follows the development of the ICC Key Trade Documents and Data Elements (KTDDE) framework and of UNECE’s UN/CEFACT Buy-Ship-Pay Reference Data Model and Trade Finance initiative. Together, they support the digitalization of end-to-end supply chains through standardized semantics, and can help create a more efficient, cost-effective, and interoperable global trade ecosystem.

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