Regional Workshop on Cross-border Digital Trade for CAREC Countries

The Regional Workshop on Cross-border Digital Trade for CAREC Countries is happening on 12 to 14 November 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. The workshop will discuss the basic principles of cross-border digital trade to raise awareness in setting up an implementation framework, including strategic activities in optimizing customs control and facilitating the movement of global trade between Korea and interested CAREC countries. The following are the strategic activities in supporting the objectives:

    • Reduce the cost involved in international trade;
    • Increase the revenue for both the private sector and the governments;
    • Security, transparency, and efficiency in supply chains would increase;
    • Changeover to paperless trade will be invariably accompanied by reengineering of existing complicated procedures resulting in simplification, greater transparency and accountability, contributing to the cause of good governance;
    • Electronic information is more amenable to automatic risk analysis, which will help in preventing fraud and non-compliance, giving rise to more revenue;
    • It will help in modernizing administrations and result in better utilization of available manpower. It will allow private enterprises to develop and use automatic tracking systems to enable secure and timely delivery of goods;
    • Landlocked countries would especially benefit from paperless trade as electronic information can be received and processed in advance before arrival of the goods at the border, enabling faster clearance;
    • Sharing knowledge on the methods and tools adopted by developed countries in aligning their business and information processes in implementing cross-border digital trade supported by AEO program and key risk management principles; and
    • Assisting interested CAREC countries in developing and implementing their digitalization efforts, trusted partnership, and risk profiling activities.

Key Documents

Agenda (ENG, RUS)

List of Participants (ENG)

Session 01 – KCS Overview of UNIPASS (ENG, RUS)

Session 02A – SCAP Cross-Border Paperles Trade Agreement (ENG, RUS)

Session 02B – ESCAP Cross-Border Mutual Recognition of Trade-Related Data and Documents in Electornic Form (ENG, RUS)

Session 03 – ADB Cross-border Digital Trade and Green Customs (ENG, RUS)

Session 04 – KCS Single Window (ENG, RUS)

Session 05 – KCS Big Data and AI Strategy REV (ENG, RUS)

Session 06 – KCS New Technologies (ENG, RUS)

Session 07 – ADB Cross Border E-Commerce and AEO Scheme (ENG, RUS)

Session 08 – KCS Risk Management (ENG, RUS)

Session 09 – KCS Pre-Arrival as a Value-Added Service to Support Digital Trade (ENG, RUS)

Session 10 – ADB Value Proposition of Exchanging Export Declaration (ENG, RUS)

Session 11 – ADB Risk Register using Data Analytics (ENG, RUS)

Session 12 – ADB Breakout Session Guidelines (ENG, RUS)

This event is supported under KSTA 9824: Better Customs for Better Client Services in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Countries, co-funded by the Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund, the PRC Poverty Reduction and Regional Cooperation Fund, the United Kingdom Fund for Asia Regional Trade and Connectivity, and the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund.-