Trade Facilitation and E-business(UN/CEFACT)

3 August 2023: The Core Component Library (CCL) D23A and XML Schema D23A have been validated by the Validation Focal Point and published on the UN/CEFACT website.

2 August 2023: The UN/CEFACT standards publication process is currently in progress, with several updates at various stages: 

• The UN/EDIFACT D23A is pending validation, undergoing careful review to ensure accuracy.
• Simultaneously, the UN/CCL D23A has been completed and awaits uploading to the ECE website for public access.
• Additionally, we are pleased to announce that the UN/LOCODE 2023-1 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.

2 August 2023: 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.

31 July 2023: UN/CEFACT's bi-annual newsletter highlights the activities, key milestones and achievements in the first two quarters of 2023.

26 July 2023: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Travel agency and DMC API RDM”. The project enables replacing the current emails and spreadsheets used to exchange tour package data between Travel Agencies (mostly SME’s) and Destination Managing Company (DMC) and Destination Managing Organization (DMO) with harmonized data and comments. The purpose of this project is to design a set of API standard for exchanging “Itinerary”,“Quotation”, “Package Tour”, “Traveler”, and “Review” data between for travel agencies (including traditional travel agencies and OTAs), between travel agencies and DMCs, and between DMC to DMCs.
If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Tunghua Tai.  

26 July 2023: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “API transformations of EPS technical artifacts with sustainability claims”. Experience Programs Technical Artefacts Project was completed in October in 2022, and tourism industry raised the need to transform the artefacts into API formats based on the newly constructed technical specifications of UNCEFACT to trade Experience Programs (EPs), which are much lighter and easier for the use on smart phones. Therefore, this project is proposed to make API applicable to the use of the trade of EPs, which will support the facilitation of their trade.
If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Sachin Mehta.

25 July 2023: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Parcel good traceability in the last mile delivery”. The project scope is to define and create white papers on the best practices in implementing service framework for seamless traceability in last-mile delivery with a view to examining: 1)Design Service framework required for seamless traceability in last-maile delivery, 2)Design interface and message standard to exchange information between human (manned transport means) and machine (unmanned transport means), 3)How the existing UN/CEFACT deliverables could be used by the service framework for seamless traceability.  New deliverables could be considered to support the service framework for seamless traceability-based trade-facilitation-related applications.
If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Kyeongrim Ahn.   

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