# ICE Commodity Traceability **Entity class:** Supply-chain traceability and compliance platform **Aliases:** ICE CoT ## Definition **ICE Commodity Traceability (ICE CoT)** is a platform operated and licensed by [[wiki/ICE Benchmark Administration|ICE Benchmark Administration]] to support due-diligence and traceability workflows for cocoa and coffee under the EU Deforestation Regulation. It stores, tests, and shares farm-plot geolocation, lawful-production and risk information, and physical-flow traceability data. Its farm-plot methodology uses forest mapping licensed from [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]], protected-area information, and consistency tests. Published Space Intelligence documentation describes optical satellite data, [[wiki/Synthetic Aperture Radar|SAR]], LiDAR, terrain variables, machine learning, and local ecological expertise. A failed test is a platform result under a methodology, not a judicial finding. ## Data model and physical-flow identity ICE CoT evaluates three broad classes of information: 1. **farm-plot data**, including geolocation and country/commodity identifiers; 2. **lawful-production and compliance-risk information**; and 3. **physical-flow traceability data** describing transport, storage, processing, aggregation, splitting, and merging. Farm polygons may be submitted in [[wiki/GeoJSON|GeoJSON]]. The resulting [[wiki/Traceability Tree|traceability tree]] connects a consignment backward through aggregators and control points toward constituent production plots. The platform’s risk environment can incorporate forest and protected-area information, corruption and rule-of-law indicators, conflict and sanctions information, and indigenous-peoples risk data. This creates a [[wiki/Digital Provenance Envelope|digital provenance envelope]] around a physical commodity. Coffee or cocoa is represented not only by quantity, grade, origin, contract, and price, but by coordinates, plot identities, environmental classifications, supply-chain events, documentary evidence, and risk states. ## Relationships - **operator:** [[wiki/ICE Benchmark Administration|ICE Benchmark Administration]]. - **parent ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|Intercontinental Exchange]]. - **mapping provider:** [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]]. - **data chain:** farm plot → forest/protected-area tests → physical commodity parcel → due-diligence statement. - **conceptual route:** [[wiki/Observation-to-Decision Stack|Observation-to-Decision Stack]], [[wiki/Supply Chain Intelligence|Supply Chain Intelligence]], and [[wiki/Machine-Readable Policy|Machine-Readable Policy]]. - **regulatory route:** [[wiki/European Union Deforestation Regulation|European Union Deforestation Regulation]]. - **provenance route:** [[wiki/Computable Provenance|Computable Provenance]], [[wiki/Traceability Tree|Traceability Tree]], and [[wiki/Digital Provenance Envelope|Digital Provenance Envelope]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE Commodity Traceability](https://www.ice.com/iba/commodity-traceability-service) - [ICE CoT public methodology](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/ICE_CoT_Public_Methodology.pdf) - [Space Intelligence — ICE CoT EUDR maps](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/Space_Intelligence_ICE_CoT_EUDR_Deforestation_Maps.pdf)