Print Email Facebook Twitter Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Compliance Through Voluntary Information Sharing with Customs Title Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Compliance Through Voluntary Information Sharing with Customs: A Case Study of the Global Quality Traceability System in China Customs Author Zhou, Xin (Shanghai Customs College) Tan, Y. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Rukanova, B.D. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Date 2021 Abstract The promotion of digital customs and data analytics have led customs administrations to seek to improve their analytics capabilities and exploit data from the trade community. Despite the increased data analysis capabilities of Customs, the data available to them are still limited to the current mandated declaration. If businesses are willing to share additional commercial information with Customs, it will enable them to make a more accurate risk assessment and ensure compliance. As a new form of Customs and business partnership, voluntary information sharing can be a supplementary data source to the mandated declaration and enable Customs to exploit additional commercial information. This study analysed an exploratory case study on the Global Quality Traceability System (GQTS) initiated by China Customs to investigate how voluntary information sharing can be achieved, and to explore the benefits for the participants. This study demonstrated that voluntary information sharing with Customs implemented through a data pipeline enhanced supply chain visibility and ensured compliance. The private companies who shared information contributed to the supply chain visibility and in return benefited from it. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4ca74907-f71b-4098-8e3e-dbfbba131212 Embargo date 2022-02-01 ISSN 1834-6707 Source World Customs Journal, 15 (2), 129-150 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Xin Zhou, Y. Tan, B.D. Rukanova Files PDF 1922_01_WCJ_v15n2_Zhou_et_al.pdf 974.36 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4ca74907-f71b-4098-8e3e-dbfbba131212/datastream/OBJ/view