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Nov 24, 2025
ASTM International’s digital information in the supply chain committee (F49) has revised its guide for supply chain traceability, authentication, verification, validation, and oversight using emerging technologies including blockchain (D8558), led by members of the subcommittee on clarity, measurement, and authenticity of information (F49.06).
This revision comes as governments intensify efforts to promote standards-based markets in supply chains. Recently, the G7 announced a Critical Minerals Action Plan that called for “developing a Roadmap to advance standards-based markets for critical minerals.”
The guide introduces a structured four-step Conformity Assessment Model designed to enhance the ability of national authorities to verify supply chain-related claims made by importers on a shipment-by-shipment basis. This model is intended to facilitate legitimate trade and improve compliance with relevant requirements.
“Reliance by customs authorities on recognized third parties to provide tracing, authentication, verification, auditing, testing, and other services will allow for a paradigm shift in verifying claims regarding product characteristics, supplier identity, origin, forced labor, land degradation, and more,” said Jeff Weiss, partner at Steptoe LLP and chair of F49 and F49.06. “This guide provides a robust, risk-based, multi-layered framework that national authorities can tailor to specific use cases, shifting from an enforcement focus with respect to supply chain claims to a compliance focus,”
The standard guide outlines a four-step Conformity Assessment Framework:
“In simple terms, the D8558 standard provides a way to create a reliable, consistent digital fingerprint for every document and data point so it can be verified as authentic and unchanged,” said Mike Coner, vice sub-chair of F49.06 and CEO of Blockticity. “It enables a technology-neutral, vendor-neutral, globally applicable verified digital passport for goods, ensuring information about a product’s origin, quality, sustainability, or compliance can be trusted and traced from its source to its final destination.”
Through this standard guide, the F49 committee aims to promote trade facilitation for compliant actors that adhere to responsible trade practices while providing tools to help improve compliance with relevant national and regional requirements. ASTM International continues to foster collaboration between governments, industry, conformity assessment bodies, and technology providers to strengthen supply chain traceability and trade compliance.
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