Paperless Trading APEC Perspective _______________________ Presentation of APEC

Paperless Trading: APEC Perspective _______________________ Presentation of APEC at the Symposium on Single Window Standards and Interoperability Geneva, May 3 -5 2006 _______________________

Contents n What is APEC? n APEC-Vision on e-commerce: The Bogor Goals and Busan Roadmap n Activities n Future perspective: cooperation with other organizations www. mot. gov. vn

What is APEC? Established in 1989 n Membership: 21 economies in Asia-Pacific Regions n The main goal: to enhance economic growth and prosperity for the region by: - trade and investment liberalization and business facilitation - economic and technical cooperation n www. mot. gov. vn

APEC-Structure Leader’s Meeting APEC Business Advisory Council Ministerial Meeting Sectoral Ministerial Meetings Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) Committee on Trade and Investment www. mot. gov. vn Economic Committee SOM Committee on ECOTECH

Vision (1) n n APEC Blueprint For Action on Electronic commerce (1998), Ministers agreed: “…member economies should endeavor to reduce or eliminate the requirement for paper documents needed for customs and other cross-border trade administration and other documents and messages relevant to international sea, air and land transport, “Paperless Trading ”, where possible, by 2005 for developed and 2010 for developing economies, or as soon as possible thereafter…” The APEC Trade Facilitation Principles in 2002 www. mot. gov. vn

ECSG – Relationship SOM ATCWG ECSG SCCP (Electronic Commerce Steering Group) TEL Paperless Trade Sub-Group PPP( Public-Private Partnership Dialogue) www. mot. gov. vn Pricacy Sub-Group

Vision (2) n Shanghai Accord, APEC Leaders agreed: “. . to embrace the New Economy with an aim achieve 5 percent reduction in transaction costs by 2006; and to include specific actions to strengthen APEC commitment to meet the Bogor Goals* where the importance of trade facilitation is emphasized as a means to generate trade expansion by 2010 for developed economies and 2020 for developing economies” * In 1994, APEC Leaders agreed in the Bogor Declaration to a common goal of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-pacific region-by 2010 for industrialised economies and 2020 for developing economies. There targets knew as the Bogor Goals. www. mot. gov. vn

Vision (3) n Busan Roadmap to Bogor sees “significant benefit in devoting increased attention to comprehensive business facilitation with particular forcus on behind-the-border issues that the development of effective policy responses in an update Business Agenda. Accordingly, the APEC agenda must be revitalised to keep pace with this new business environment. In particular, APEC must develop a comprehensive business programme building commitment made in the trade facilitation Action Plan (TFAP). The programme must identify specific priorities and targets in areas where substantial improvement in the business environment are achievable and support through the delivery of effective capacity building activities”. One of mentioned areas is e-commerce. www. mot. gov. vn

Vision (4) n In Ministerial Joint Statement, in November 2005 in Korea, Ministers instructed Officials: n In November 2004, Ministers endorsed APEC Strategies and actions towards a cross-border paperless trading environment; The paper Implementation of e-APEC Strategy-progress and recommendations for futher action was also adopted by Ministers. “to carry out further concrete actions in identified priority areas, such as improving customs procedures, enhancing the alignment of domestic standards with international standards, facilitating business mobility and fostering a paperless trading environment ” www. mot. gov. vn

Past and current activities (1) n n n Implementation of e-APEC strategy Sixteen individual action plans on paperless trading APEC privacy framework endorsed Participation in World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Seminars on domestic and international implementation of the APEC privacy framework (Hong. Kong, Korea); Symposium on assessment and benchmark of paperless trading (China) www. mot. gov. vn

Past and current activities (2) n APEC paperless trading readiness assessment survey: Hong. Kong, China, Chinese Taipei, Thailand others Availability of agencies working on the issue n Do have plans on the issue n Need for capacity building n Role of private sector n Electronic platform, standards n Difficulties: inconsistency of electronic systems, budget, lack of training, etc. n www. mot. gov. vn

Past and current activities (3) n APEC Public-Private Partnership (PPP)** Dialogue, Hanoi, February 2006 Vietnam: e-commerce strategy and e-custom clearance n Chinese Taipei: Facile Trade (FT) Net n Singapore: Trade. Net project n Range of private sector companies: Crimson. Logic (Singapore), KTNET (Korea), Dagang. Net (Malaysia), Trade. Van (Chinese Taipei), Microsoft Hongkong ** The ECSG also agreed the establishment of the APEC Public-Private Parnership n Dialogue on Paperless Trading to assist in the further development of the APEC Paperless Trading Agenda in SOM I 2005. www. mot. gov. vn

Past and current activities (4) APEC ECSG pathfinder project: cross border e. CO exchange project (Korea, Chinese Taipei) n Individual actions by APEC member economies: E-trade facilitation law (Korea), Paperless Trading individual action plan (Thailand), etc. n APEC ECSG Website: www. apec. org n www. mot. gov. vn

Newly proposed activities The second APEC E-commerce Business Alliance forum and exhibition***: Qingdao, China, May 18 -21, 2006 (the first in China, in June, 2004) n APEC E-commerce expert resources network **** n APEC Training program on global standards of ebusiness ***** n www. mot. gov. vn

APEC E-commerce Business Alliance forum and exhibition***: The main theme: “Optimize Environment, Enhance Cooperation, Encourage Innovation, Promote Application” Website: www. apec-ecba. org n Subjects: - Public sevices Environment Building - E-Commerce Application in Enterprices & Its Development - Enterprice & E-Commerce Public Service n www. mot. gov. vn

APEC-E-commerce expert resources network **** n n APEC e-Commerce Expert Resounces Network is an e. Commerce knowledge and service intergrated platform, it is focused on the e-trade in international trade, in the transformation from paper documents system to electronic documents system in international trade. It mainly involves in APEC economies’s enterprises, governments, research institutions and the third-party sevice providers. It is jointly built by APEC e-Commerce Business Alliance and Its APEC economies members. www. mot. gov. vn

APEC Training program on global standards of e-business ***** Goal: to promote paperless trading among APEC member economies by building capacity to use global e-Business standards through training. n Scope: - programme covers global standards - support Portal site will be build and operated n www. mot. gov. vn

APEC’s progress in the years to come n 13 th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting-Busan Declaration highlighted: “the importance of innovation and sharing advanced technologies among members in the years to come. ” n n Collaborating with other international organizations sush as ABAC, GBDe, PAA, Asia PKI Forum, especially with UN/CEFACT, UNedocs, UNCITRAL, etc. Example: international standards Strengthening of Public and Private Partnership www. mot. gov. vn

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