We spoke to 250 Importers across the UK, Austria, Belgium, Italy and France to get their take on upcoming deforestation regulations and their attitudes towards traceability solutions.
26% say they are fully prepared for incoming deforestation regulation.
83% spend half or more of their working hours tracking down information requested by customers.
42% feel that supply chains are suppressed by a lack of traceability.
53% fear being left behind by more digitally adept organisations adopting traceability solutions.
56% have misplaced fears that using traceability technology such as blockchain could lead to the loss of trade secrets.
72% are keen to get ahead of the incoming regulation.