TRADE/CEFACT/2006/8

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TRADE/CEFACT/2006/8

• Report on the Development in the Asia and Pacific
  Region

UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia
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AFACT (Asia Pacific Council for Trade
Facilitation e-Business)
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• 1. 23rd AFACT Meeting EDICOM
• Overview
• - Dates Oct. 24 27, 2005
• - Venue Sheraton Hanoi Hotel, Ha Noi,
  Vietnam
• - Hosted by E-Commerce Dept., Ministry
  of Trade, Vietnam
• - Participants 60 from 12 member
  countries and economies and two
• associate
  members (ebXML Asia Committee PAA)
• - StC Meeting, Joint Working Group
  Meetings, Plenary EDICOM
• Conference

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Decisions of the Plenary Meeting
- One minute silence to offer condolence and
sympathy to the earthquake victims
in Pakistan and India - Wider
distribution of its annual AFACT Yearbook for
promotion - Resolved to organize the
eAsia Award event bi-annually - At the
Working group level, BCFWG resolved to change its
name and Financial group to initiate
a new project on cross-border payment
- Pakistan to host 24th AFACT Meeting this year
? Interim StC Meeting Apr. 10-11,
Lahore, Pakistan ? AFACT Meeting
Aug. 7-10, Karachi, Pakistan
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Decisions of the Plenary Meeting (Contd)
- Identified hosts for future
meetings up to 2010 ? 2007 Thailand
? 2008 Republic of Korea
? 2009 India ? 2010 Chinese Taipei
EDICOM Conference - Held on Oct.
27, 2005 - Theme Total Solution for
e-Business - Presentation topics
? UN/CEFACT activities ? ICT
indicator in ASEAN ? e-Business
implementation policies of Vietnam ?
Presentation on available e-Business solutions
from vendors
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2. 2006 Interim AFACT StC Meeting Apr.
10-11, 2006, Lahore, Pakistan Major
Discussions and Decisions - Next eAsia
Award to be organized by Thailand in 2007
- 25th AFACT Event ? Interim StC
Meeting Apr. 18-19, 2007, Phuket, Thailand
? Annual AFACT Meeting Jul. 31-Aug. 3,
Bangkok, Thailand - Pakistan Intention
to host future UN/CEFACT Forum -
Collaboration with other regional bodies APEC,
ASEAN, SEACC, etc. - AFACT Roadmap for
future AFACT direction - UNeDocs
Assessment taskforce was formed
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3. AFACT Supported UNCEFACT Event Capacity
Building Workshop on Single Windows Dev.
Feb. 19 23, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 19-20 Capacity building workshop -
21-23 Technical workshop on UNeDocs
implementation Over 80 participants from
19 countries in Asia, Europe and Africa
Chance to bring together key partners for the
development of International trade
single windows (WCO, AFACT, SITPRO, IATA, PAA,
etc.) Major Presentations and
Discussions - WCO Alignment of WCO and
UNeDocs data models - Pakistan
UNeDocsPK Project - PAA Possible
benefits of UNeDocs platform to PAA single window
- SITPRO ASEALs plan to adopt
UNeDocs
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Major Presentations and Discussions
(Contd) - IATA e-freight Paperless
Trade Project - EU research project
ITAIDE for pan-European interoperability of EU
taxation and customs systems -
Commercial pilots in the maritime oil industry
UNeDocs adoption - Other presentations
Cost/benefits of UNeDocs, customization
strategies, UNeDocsUK, Senegal Kenya
Single Window, Hong Kong SAR DTTN,
Malaysia E-Document UNeDocs
Implementation Workshop - Introduction
of data modeling techniques based on UNTDED and
CC Library - Practice on the
development of a draft UNeDocs Customs document
for Malaysian Customs Export
Declaration - A briefing on UN Document
Toolkit More details at www.unece.org/trade
/workshop/malaysia_feb06/welcome.htm
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Other Regional Inter-regional Bodies
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1. ASEAN (Association of South East Asian
Nations) Trade facilitation Good
tracking on the development of ASEAN Single
Windows e-Business e-ASEAN Working
Group (EAWG) - dissolved in 2005 and
integrated into the activities of the
telecommunications working group Further
tracking on the e-Business activities of ASEAN is
necessary
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2. APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)
ECSG (Electronic Commerce Steering Group)
- Paperless Trading SubGroup - Data
Privacy SubGroup Participated in the 12th
ECSG and Sub-group meetings with official
invitation - Sep. 2005,Kyung-Ju, Korea
- Introduced UN/CEFACT and proposed
collaboration on paperless trading ?
capacity building, promotion paperless trading
standards dev. - went into internal
process to grant a guest status to UN/CEFACT
Participated in the 13th ECSG and Sub-group
meetings - Feb. 2006, Ha Noi, Vietnam
- ECSG granted a guest status to
UN/CEFACT - 2nd PPP(Public Private
Partnership) Dialogue on Paperless Trading was
held
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Private Sector-led Regional Efforts
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1. ebXML (e-Business) Asia Committee (eAC)
Regional body to promote the implementation of
ebXML(e-Business) in the region
13th and 14th eAC Meeting - 13th
Jun. 20 - 24, 2005, Hong Kong SAR, China
- 14th Nov. 22 25, 2005, Taipei, Chinese
Taipei - Plenary, two task groups (CCTG
ITG) and one project (RRF) RRF
(Registry and Repository Federation) Project
- Joint project with ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32
WG2(Metadata) - Held several interim
meetings in 2005 - Completed a pilot
test and guideline at the 14th Meeting
ITG (Interoperability Task Group) -
Planning on future activities on testing ebMS 3.0
and Web Services
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1. ebXML (e-Business) Asia Committee (eAC)
(Contd) CCTG (Core Component Task Group)
- Continues working on the development
of Asian Core Component Library
- Collaborates with TBG 17 of UN/CEFACT
New Direction - Changed its name
to e-Business Asia Committee - Expanded
its scope to cover e-Business and e-Trade, etc.
Next Meeting - May 29 31,
2006, Tokyo, Japan
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2. PAA (Pan Asian eCommerce Alliance)
Industry-led alliance of service providers to
enable secure and reliable cross-border
trade and logistics related documents
Membership 9 member organizations from regional
economies - CIECC of China -
TradeVan of Chinese Taipei - TradeLink
of Hong Kong SAR, China - TEDI of
Japan - KTNET of Korea -
TedMev of Macau SAR, China - DagangNet
of Malaysia - CrimsonLogic of Singapore
- CAT Telecom of Thailand
Continues its effort to develop data exchange
formats with focus on ECO
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Observations Suggestions
Much efforts on trade facilitation and
e-Business are on-going in the region Effort
to Coordinate among regional bodies and with
UN/CEFACT is necessary UN/CEFACT should be at
the centre of this coordination effort and the
commitment for this effort should come from
within UN/CEFACT first. - AFACT Much closer
collaboration and support from UN/CEFACT is
needed ? formal liaison at the working
group level ? joint promotion activities
- APEC Next ECSG on Sep. 2006 for official
UN/CEFACT presence - ASEM Next meeting on
Nov. 2006 in China - PAA, eAC, ASEAN, etc.
Continue seeking collaboration with regional
bodies whenever circumstances allow