UN Verifiable Trade Documents
Lightweight, interoperable schemas for digitally verifiable trade documents across global supply chains. Built on JSON Schema, W3C Verifiable Credentials and UN/CEFACT semantics for trusted, vendor-neutral exchange.
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Change Request
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Regulators
Strengthen compliance, revenue integrity and trusted cross-border data exchange with verifiable trade documents.
Industries
Reduce manual processing and improve interoperability across ports, trade and logistics workflows.
Other
Enable trusted financing and identity verification through authoritative registries and reusable digital credentials.
Documentation Highlights
Explore UNVTD schemas, architecture, use cases, supporting evidence, governance, and practical guidance for implementing verifiable trade documents.
Project Overview
Learn how UNVTD turns familiar trade documents into structured, machine-readable data that can be processed, rendered and cryptographically verified.
Read more →Verifiable Trade Documents
Explore the JSON Schemas, JSON-LD contexts, examples and renderings for commercial invoices, bills of lading, customs declarations and other essential trade documents.
Read more →Architecture
Understand the decentralised architecture behind portable credentials, business wallets, transferable records and trusted identity anchors.
Read more →Governance
Review how the project is governed, how decisions are made and how to join the working group, meetings and partnerships.
Read more →Use Cases
Follow verifiable documents through buy-sell, trade finance, transport, border compliance, payment and reconciliation workflows.
Read more →Business Cases
See why governments, customs, tax authorities, ports, registries, traders, logistics providers and banks benefit from adopting UNVTD.
Read more →Evidence
Examine the research, country data and organisation benchmarks behind the project’s economic and operational claims.
Read more →Implementation Guidance
Get started with UNVTD schemas, identifiers, credential issuance and conformance testing as a trader, authority or software vendor.
Read more →Implementations Register
Discover software systems and national initiatives implementing verifiable trade documents in practice.
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