essCert provides Chambers of Commerce, Authorizing Bodies, Exporters and Freight Forwarders with a secure, online tool for application and issuance of electronic governmental and quasi-governmental trade documents such as Preferential & Non-Preferential electronic Certificates of Origin (eCOs), EUR.1, ATR.1, EU/EC COs and more, along with relevant supporting documents such as Commercial Invoices.
Today, essCert is the world’s largest eCO network, including 350+ Chambers of Commerce and 60,000+ Exporters & Freight Forwarders, issuing eCOs and other trade documents out of 18 export countries. essCert combines the best of ICE Digital Trade's (formerly essDOCS') eCO solutions – TradeCert & eCertify – with next-generation technologies to offer the world's most powerful eCertification solution for global trade. ICE Certify will be launched in the coming months, and will offer Chambers of Commerce and other Certifiers the ability to generate revenue from offering other value-adding digital trade solutions to their members, and will offer Exporters and Forwarders a modern, intuitive user experience.
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In 2017, essCert (formerly TradeCert) was acquired by essDOCS. essDOCS is now ICE Digital Trade (IDT), becoming part of ICE in 2022. You may know ICE already through its energy futures markets covering Brent, Gasoil, TTF, JKM LNG and EUA futures, and its soft commodity futures across coffee, sugar and cocoa. It is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. ICE provides financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer its customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies, two areas which ICE Digital Trade is similarly focused on. ICE operates exchanges, including the well-known New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. ICE’s fixed income data services and ex*****on capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms to help customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently. While ICE Mortgage Technology is transforming and digitizing the U.S.
