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19th Pan Asian E-Commerce Alliance Steering
Committee Meeting in Lijiang
 (Hong
Kong, 30 May 2005) The Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance (PAA) held
its 19th Steering Committee meeting in Lijiang, China from 24th
May to 25th May 2005. Established in July 2000, the PAA 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.
Mr. Ryu Chang Moo, Chairman of the PAA and CEO of KTNET reported
with great pride the further progress PAA Members had made in
facilitating electronic cross border trade in the region. Mr.
Ryu was also confident that PAA would play an increasingly greater
role in international bodies, like APEC, WTO, WCO and ASEM, so
as to achieve the goal of paperless trade beyond Pan-Asia.
Mr. Yang Feng Yi, Vice Director of CIECC, hosted the PAA Welcome
Dinner, and said that the PAA’s achievement in secure cross-border
Customs declaration, electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) and
trade document exchanges have enhanced and promoted the objective
of achieving paperless trading. He believed that the work of the
PAA would play an important role in the economic growth of the
Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Yang told the gathering that CIECC as
a founding member of PAA would continue to provide electronic
commerce services both in China and worldwide. Learning from its
participation in the PAA, CIECC has expanded its service coverage
to finance, logistics, and insurance. It has also widened its
cooperation with other Chinese government departments, such as
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, Customs General
Administration of the Peoples’ Republic of China etc.
During the meeting, PAA Members reported progress made in cross
border acceptance of e-CO and the support received from the local
customs and trade authorities of the various economies. By the
end of 2005, Chinese Taipei Customs are prepared to accept e-COs
from exporters in Korea, and later from other PAA economies. KTNET
and CrimsonLogic have similar arrangement for Korea and Singapore.
In Singapore, CrimsonLogic has developed an e-CO solution which
is widely accepted and adopted by customs worldwide. This involves
the ability to have secure digital water- marks on ordinary A4
paper.
TEDMEV announced the start of its electronic Manifest (EMAN)
project for Macau SAR. Apart from the Macau local Manifest submission,
the service will be further enhanced as a joint development of
TEDMEV and Tradelink to link up to the electronic Manifest service
already in use in Hong Kong. The solution will provide an integrated
platform for carriers to submit Manifests to both Macau and Hong
Kong customs. With the launch of the service in December 2005,
carries will benefit from the closer cooperation among Macau and
Hong Kong. Other PAA Members have similar plans to expand this
cross border electronic manifest service.
CIECC reported to the meeting of its assignment by APEC to assess
the degree of success that APEC economies have achieved towards
the objective of paperless trade. The other PAA Members will share
their experiences with CIECC in this area, which will be reported
in the APEC meeting to be held in Beijing in early September this
year.
The 20th PAA Steering Committee Meeting will be held in Tokyo
in the week of 12 September 2005.
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on 2599 1686.
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