Country / Government — Business Case

The national, whole-of-government case for verifiable trade — the umbrella that aggregates the agency cases.

This is the national umbrella business case. It sums the value realised by the fiscal and infrastructure agencies and owns the derived national productivity roll-up — the macro outcome of cheaper trade, recovered revenue, and broader finance.

Where the value comes from

Cost of trade ① — faster, cheaper clearance across every flow (all scenarios).
Revenue integrity — border ② — less tariff and valuation fraud (Border Compliance).
Revenue integrity — domestic ③ — higher VAT and corporate-tax compliance (Buy-Sell, Payment & Reconciliation).
Trade & working-capital finance ④ — more financed trade, especially for SMEs (Trade Finance).
National productivity ⑤ (derived) — the aggregate roll-up of the above.

What it costs

A one-time national register (GRID) uplift plus verifier integration for the agencies (customs, tax). Decentralised model — no network, hubs, or per-transaction fees. The shared ETR control-protocol cost is programme-level and negligible per country.

Payback

A modest one-time national uplift against large, recurring fiscal and productivity gains — typically a short payback. Quantified per country via personalisation.

Generate your business case

Light — attach your national accounts / budget and trade & customs statistics, then paste the prompt below into a browsing-capable frontier model (ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini). It fetches the UNVTD method and returns a 4–8 page draft; ask it to convert to Word.

Full — for exact, data-grounded figures, clone the repository and run Claude over the per-country data. See the generation guide.

Copy the Light prompt


You are preparing a first-draft UNVTD business case for the national government whose document(s) are attached. The goal: the whole-of-government case for adopting verifiable trade documents and verifiable identity (UNVTD + GRID).

INPUTS
1. Attached document(s) — extract GDP, exports and imports, average tariff and tariff revenue, VAT/CIT gaps if published, trade volumes, and digital-government context. Where a figure is absent, use the benchmark defaults on the methodology page and say so.
   No document? Set your country and the model will use its published data — COUNTRY: __________ (replace, e.g. Kenya). The model reads your country's row from the Evidence section (https://unvtd.unece.org/evidence/) for a country-grounded estimate, using income-band defaults only for figures not in the tables. If neither a document nor a country is given, ask the user which country before proceeding.
2. Fetch these UNVTD pages (and follow their links):
   - Method: https://unvtd.unece.org/business-cases/assessment-methodology/
   - This stakeholder's case: https://unvtd.unece.org/business-cases/country/
   - Use-case overview (all five flows): https://unvtd.unece.org/use-cases/

METHOD
Apply the method from the Assessment Methodology page to the national levers — cost of trade, revenue (border and domestic), and trade finance — plus national productivity as the derived roll-up. Use that page's attribution chain, UNVTD/GRID share (45%, range 30–60%), adoption scenarios (30/50/70%), cost model, and counting rules. National productivity is the de-overlapped sum of the other levers, not an additional pool — do not double-count.

RULES
- Be conservative — lower end of every range unless the attached document justifies higher.
- Show your working; every monetary figure is a range.
- Confidence (High/Medium/Low) per benefit; conservative / base / optimistic scenarios.
- Assess ecosystem readiness — national register / GRID, customs and tax systems, e-invoicing maturity, software-vendor landscape.
- Plain markdown; end by telling the reader to convert to Word.

OUTPUT — a 4–8 page business case: 1) Executive summary; 2) National trade & fiscal profile; 3) Why verifiable trade matters nationally; 4) Estimated benefits (cost of trade, revenue border & domestic, finance, with confidence + scenarios; productivity as roll-up); 5) Estimated cost (register uplift + agency verifier integration); 6) Payback, NPV, ROI (with 30–60% sensitivity); 7) Implementation roadmap (Discovery → Alpha → Beta → Live); 8) Assumptions, methodology & references; 9) Next steps.

If you cannot browse the web, use Full mode instead (clone the repository; the full method and per-country data are local).

Learn more

Assessment Methodology · Implementation Model · the agency cases: Customs, Tax, Ports, Registry Operator