(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:
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.
