This report summarizes the content and key findings from the workshop series. Between August 2022 and January 2023, APEC invited experts from the government, the private sector, and academia to offer their informed insights on a variety of topics relating to how digital technologies can help foster trade throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Throughout the series, speakers emphasized the significant benefits that digital technologies can provide for operations of and cooperations between both customs agencies and port authorities. Key to the success in adopting these technologies is cross-agency and cross-border interoperability, which depends on commitments from governments and other stakeholders to pursue collaborations. Cybersecurity measures, such as ensuring the authenticity of digital documents, must also be developed and implemented for digital technology adoption in both of these agencies that play critical roles in trade.