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Customs-Based Blockchain Solution for Exportation Protection

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Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP 2019)

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Abstract

As part of the international trade supply chain, Dubai Customs acts as the gatekeeper, protecting the society and the economy. During the exportation process, one of the primary responsibilities of the Customs Authority is to authenticate the documents submitted with the exportation declaration application, to ensure the legality of the trade. Due to the lack of direct communication channel among the exportation supply chain participants, authenticating the exportation application documents is a time-consuming and challenging task. Typically, there is no direct communication paradigm among the supply chain participants. Therefore, in most cases, the authenticating process relies on human judgment. This increases the chance of non-detection of fraudulent exportation documents. In this regard, the redesign of the exportation supply chain to automate the authentication process has become an essential requirement. This paper addresses this requirement by proposing a blockchain-based system, which establishes a direct, tamper-proof information exchange mechanism among the participants. We target the car exportation supply chain; however, with slight modification, the proposed system can be easily applied to any other exportation supply chain too. To validate the performance of the proposed system, we implement a Proof-of-Concept (POC) using the IBM Hyperledger fabric.

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    The Intelligence Department at Dubai Customs is the source of all statistical information provided in this paper.

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Acknowledgement

Dubai Customs funded the research for this paper. The authors would also like to thank everyone from the Service Innovation department for constructive discussions and inputs.

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  1. Dubai Customs, Dubai, UAE

    Hussam Juma

  2. The British University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE

    Hussam Juma & Khaled Shaalan

  3. University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Ibrahim Kamel

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Juma, H., Shaalan, K., Kamel, I. (2020). Customs-Based Blockchain Solution for Exportation Protection. In: Shen, H., Sang, Y. (eds) Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming. PAAP 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1163. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2767-8_36

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