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Facilitating Electronic Commerce in Apec : A Case Study of Electronic Certificate of Origin

By: Alicia Say, Jack Wu and Peter Stokes

... Facilitating Electronic Commerce in APEC: A Case Study of Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) ... ...O) APEC Policy Support Unit October 2011 Reducing Trade Transaction Costs in APEC through Electronic Commerce 2 ... ...the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group, for her support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily repr... ... OTHER RECENT E-CO DEVELOPMENTS IN APEC ...................... 27 6.1. Hong Kong, China and the UK ..................................................... ...APPENDIX 7: Nature of Export and Import Procedures (Costs and Duration) in APEC – 2010.................................................................. ...: Trade Values and Container Volumes for Intra-APEC trades (exports and imports), 2010 ................................................................. ....... 60 APPENDIX 10: Intra-APEC Trade Transaction CostS and Economy Contribution, 2010 ................................................................. ... Economies adopt e-CO. Assume Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; New Zealand; Philippines; Sing... ...re; Thailand; US are at the same ratios specified in Scenario 1 above. 2.80% 4 China + e- Advanced economies. China + economies in Scenario 3 at...

...s to assess the contribution of the actions and measures of APEC‘s Electronic Commerce Steering Group (ECSG) towards reducing trade transaction costs in the region through a case study of an Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) project. The study assesses the results of the e-CO Pathfinder Project between Chinese Taipei and Korea in reducing trade transaction costs sinc...

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