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PAA Strengthens Cross Border Customs Declaration
Service
 (Hong
Kong, 23 November 2004) The Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance, known
as PAA, held the 17th Steering Committee meeting in Taipei from
17 November to 18 November 2004. Established in July 2000, it
is the first regional e-Commerce alliance in Asia that provides
secure and reliable IT infrastructure to promote 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, TEDMEV of Macau and CAT Telecom Public Co. Ltd of
Thailand.
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
very proud to announce that the APEC ECSG (Electronic Commerce
Steering Group), at its meeting held in Chile in September 2004,
officially recognized PAA's effort in promoting cross border electronic
trade documentation services by according PAA a guest status in
future APEC ECSG meetings.'
Chairman of Trade-Van, Mr. Lin Wei Yi expressed his warm welcome
to all the PAA members and gave his full support for PAA regional
cooperation. 'The PAA initiatives have gained high recognition
in global international organizations like APEC and AFACT, showing
that PAA has a very promising future. At the same time, we are
also working with some European partners to further extend PAA
services to cover Europe region,' said Chairman Lin.
The PAA made further progress in various projects. The cross
border customs declaration service had been launched and extended
to freight forwarders between the following economies:
- Malaysia and Chinese Taipei
- Malaysia and Singapore
- Singapore and Thailand
- Singapore and Chinese Taipei
Pilot users and their overseas agents will benefit from the data
sharing to facilitate the respective customs declarations. In
addition, Tradelink and TradeCard have cooperated together to
integrate the PAA secure cross border transaction service with
the TradeCard financial settlement service.
Dr. Chen Jenn-Nan completed his chairmanship and Mr. Ryu, Chang-Moo,
CEO of KTNET, was unanimously elected by the Steering Committee
for the coming term.
The 18th Steering Committee Meeting is scheduled to be held in
Hong Kong in February/ March 2005.
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For press enquiries, please contact Tradelink (Corporate Communications)
on 2599 1686.
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