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23. June 2005 Report of UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia

TRADE/CEFACT/2006/8Report on the Development in the

Asia and Pacific Region

UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia


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24 May 2006 Report of UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia

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 twoassociate members (ebXML Asia Committee & PAA)

- StC Meeting, Joint Working Group Meetings, Plenary & EDICOMConference


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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 andFinancial 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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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

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


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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 EventCapacity 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 Internationaltrade 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 EUtaxation 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 CCLibrary

- Practice on the development of a draft UNeDocs Customs document forMalaysian 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 SingleWindows

e-Business: e-ASEAN Working Group (EAWG)- dissolved in 2005 and integrated into the activities of thetelecommunications 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

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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) inthe 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 14 th 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 ComponentLibrary

- 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 reliablecross-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 thecommitment 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 circumstancesallow

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