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PAA Launches Cross Border Customs Declaration
Service
 (Hong
Kong, 24 August 2004) The Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance, known
as PAA, held the 16th Steering Committee meeting in Macau from
18th August to 19th August 2004. Established in July 2000, it
is the first regional e-Commerce alliance in Asia that promotes
and provides secure and reliable IT infrastructure to facilitate
efficient global trade and logistics. Current PAA Members comprise
Tradelink of Hong Kong, Trade-Van of Chinese Taipei, CrimsonLogic
of Singapore, KTNET of Korea, CIECC of China, TEDI Club of Japan,
Dagang Net of Malaysia and TEDMEV of Macau. CAT Telecom Public
Co. Ltd. of Thailand was accepted by PAA as a formal member in
this meeting.
Speaking on behalf of the Alliance after the meeting, Dr. Chen,
Jenn Nan, Chairman of the PAA and Trade-Van's CEO said, "We
are extremely pleased with the significant progress we have made
in these two days. And at this meeting we unanimously endorsed
the application of CAT for PAA membership."
Mr. Sompol Chanprasert, senior executive vice president of CAT
said, "CAT, representing Thailand, is looking forward to
enhancing the e-Commerce business, particularly secure cross border
transactions with the international trading community in cooperation
with the PAA members."
Chairman of TEDMEV, Mr. Lo Loi Weng expressed his warm welcome
to all the PAA members and showed his full support to PAA regional
cooperation. 'I am sure that in the PAA initiatives in secure
cross border electronic transaction services, the impetus to paperless
trade and to provide door-to-door cargo tracking, will bring a
significant benefit to the business growth in the Asian region.'
Said Mr. Lo.
The PAA reported progress in various projects. Among them, a
cross border customs declaration service model had been launched
and the service was extended to freight forwarders. These users
benefit from the reuse and data sharing among the trading community
to facilitate their respective customs' declarations using the
PAA secure cross border transaction service.
As an associate member of AFACT, the Asia Pacific chapter of
the UN/CEFACT, which is the UN/EDIFACT standard setting body,
PAA is invited to make a presentation on the AFACT annual meeting
held in September 2004. PAA will further promote APEC (Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation) initiatives in paperless trading.
The 17th Steering Committee Meeting is scheduled to be held in
Taiwan in November 2004.
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