Trade Compliance Records announces a dedicated EUDR Compliance Record that resolves the GPS polygon ingestion problem — enabling operators to hash geospatial supply chain data into a single verifiable record accepted by the EU DDS Registry.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trade Compliance Records Solves the EUDR GPS Polygon Problem Clearwater, Florida — May 23, 2026 Trade Compliance Records (TCR) today announced a dedicated EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) Compliance Record that resolves the GPS polygon ingestion problem — enabling operators to hash geospatial supply chain data into a single verifiable record accepted by the EU Due Diligence Statement (DDS) Registry before the 30 December 2026 deadline for large operators. The GPS Polygon Infrastructure Gap The EU Deforestation Regulation requires operators to submit GPS polygon data proving that commodities — soy, palm oil, cattle, cocoa, coffee, wood, rubber, and derived products — were not produced on deforested land after 31 December 2020. A GPS polygon for a single farm plot can contain 50–500 coordinate pairs. Multiplied across a supply chain with 10–50 sourcing locations, a single EUDR due diligence statement can contain 500–25,000 coordinate pairs. Standard customs single-window systems — EU CDS, UK CDS, US ACE, Singapore TradeNet — are designed to process text fields and document references, not geospatial polygon data. The European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT) formally stated in its 2024 position paper that "the current customs IT infrastructure is not capable of processing geospatial data at the volume and granularity required by EUDR." The TCR Solution TCR creates a cryptographically locked record of the complete geospatial data package — hashing the polygon coordinates, the DDS reference number, and the supply chain documentation into a single verifiable record that customs systems can process as a standard document hash. The TCR EUDR record links to the operator's DDS Registry entry and provides customs authorities with a single QR code that resolves to the complete geospatial compliance package. "The EUDR deadline is not the problem — the infrastructure gap is the problem," said Anthony ...