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• (1) Secure Cross-border Transaction Services

  Currently, any trade-related documents across the borders are filed by hard copy, and transacted via mail or fax. With the PAA cross-border transaction service, exchange of such documents can be conducted electronically across border over a secure infrastructure, and with more ease and efficiency. In addition, users will be able to re-use the relevant data from the received documents for the application and submission of trade or regulatory declarations with the local regulatory bodies of the PAA economies. Some of the projects that have been conducted include:

  • (a) Between Importers and Exporters

    Exchange of Purchase Orders, Commercial Invoices and Advance Shipment Notices between TAL (HK) and their suppliers in Taiwan [more ...]
    Exchange of Packing List and Commercial Invoices between Metal One (Japan) and Hyundai Motors (Korea) [more ...]

  • (b) Between Freight Forwarders and Logistics Provider

    Re-use of shipping and trade declaration data for export/import declaration between Singapore and Malaysia trade communities
    [more ...]

  Through these service offerings, PAA hopes to generate the following benefits for the participating companies

  

• (2) Mutual Recognition of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

  A PAA Certificate Authority has been commissioned as a framework for the mutual recognition of PKI. An infrastructure to support both end-to-end digital signatures as well as digital signatures between service providers has been established.

  Currently, the working group has developed a common certificate policy. This certificate policy (CP) will serve as the minimum requirements for all the member certificate authorities to work on. Other policies such as test assessment and the recognition of CP standards are completed. The alliance is targeting to have at least one Certificate Authority from each member country to be certified and participate in the PAA.
  

  In the past decade, most economies have established their own legal and regulatory framework to support digital signatures to conduct e-business within their own territory. Yet the surge in international trading activities in the region has triggered lots of cross-border electronic transactions that call for security and assurance with legal protection. The lack of a common framework for international electronic transactions has prohibited/deterred trading entities to carry out cross border business dealing.

  One of PAA’s missions is to promote and facilitate secure cross border electronic transactions for its customers, it is therefore essential for PAA to address the aforementioned issues. Based on the international standard and best practice, PAA has developed a CA Mutual Recognition Scheme. The scheme composes of a legal and a technical framework to enable electronic trading and logistic activities within the Alliance. Under these frameworks, PAA has established a certificate policy authority – the Pan Asian Certificate Policy Authority (“PAA Policy Authority”) - to govern and oversee the usage of digital certificate for all electronic transactions among the PAA members.
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• (3) Cargo Tracking Service

  A cargo tracking service will be incorporated into the secure cross-border transaction services. It will provide useful information for freight forwarders to find out the status of their cargo. Currently, the Cargo Tracking Working Group is testing the system involving customers from KTNET and Trade-Van. Upon completion, the service will be extended to other alliance members.