Pan Asian E-Commerce Alliance
www.paa.net

Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance was initiated and founded in July 2000 by CIECC (Mainland China), CrimsonLogic (Singapore), Korea Trade Network, KTNET (Korea), TRADELINK Electronic Commerce Ltd (Hong Kong SAR of China), and TRADE-VAN Information Services Co. (Taiwan China), and was later on subsequently joined by Trade Electronic Data Interchange, TEDI (Japan), Dagang Net (Malaysia), TEDMEV (Macau SAR of China) and CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (Thailand). At present, PAA is comprised of nine members. With the support from the member governments, PAA has been developing rapidly and has become a typical example of paperless trading in the APEC region. PAA aims to provide transnational e-Trade service for trade and freight transport enterprises in Asia or even in the world, uses secured PAA system framework to realize the electron-procedures of the B2G and B2B trade. By transmitting trade documents, PKI cross-certified, formulating law standards and constructing Pan-Asia web portal, various kinds of documents can be transmitted in standardized electronic format in the international trade chain. The paper document system can be gradually transformed to electronic document system. The international trade becomes even faster, more secured and highly efficient. In this case, the operational cost can be considerably reduced for the trade companies and in the trade service series of the entire Pan Asia region as well as the operational efficiency of the trade chain can also be improved.

As one of the founding members of PAA, CIECC of the Ministry of Commerce is in the leading position in the project of the trade documents transmission, and is dedicated to the realization of the cross-border B2G trade document transmission in the area of the Certificate of Origin and Customs clearance etc., and further extends the e-trade service to the field of financial and logistics, so as to lay an all-round foundation for the trade portal in the Pan Asian region.

APEC Electronic Business Alliance
www.apec-ecba.org

In order to promote the regional e-commerce development and to enhance the communication and cooperation in e-commerce among the enterprises of the economies, in 2001, China proposed to establish an organization called the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance at the APEC Paperless Trading High Level Symposium. And subsequently the proposal was ratified at the 3rd senior offices’ review meeting in the same year and approved at the 13th APEC Ministerial Meeting; thus, the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance was officially established.

The Alliance’s mission is to serve the industrial and commercial enterprises in the Asia and Pacific region, to promote the enterprises of APEC member economies to communicate and cooperate each other in the e-commerce field, so as to propel the governments to optimize the e-commerce development environment to drive the entire e-commerce development progress in the Asian Pacific region.

The Alliance’s goal is to construct a communication platform for enterprise-to-enterprise and enterprise-to-government in the Asia and Pacific region; to analyze and research the current status and the problems faced in carrying out e-commerce’s development in Asian Pacific region; to bring the entire influential of the regional alliance into full play and make consultant opinion and suggestions for it’s members’ governments to draw up e-commerce development plans, laws and regulations, policies and measures etc, so as to create a good environment for the application and promotion of e-commerce.

UN Trade Network China Development Center

On June 14th 1996, UN Conference on Trade and Development together with the then Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade formally approved to establish “UN Trade Network China Development Center”.

UN Trade Network China Development Center located at CIECC, is a national level center in the Asia Pacific region of the UN Trade Network. It is the sole organization in China authorized by the UN Trade Network Development Center to provide e-trade opportunity, relevant technology and service of the global trade network for trade webs and nodes. With the consent of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Chinese government approved to set up trade webs and nodes in the Chinese cities: UN Trade Web Node Beijing Center, Shanghai Center and Weifang Center.