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A LOCAL
company which assists Filipino businesses in their
import and export transactions has gained associate
membership in a regional e-Commerce alliance promoting
efficient global trade.
In an
e-mailed statement, Intercommerce Network Services (INS)
announced that its membership to the Pan Asian
e-Commerce Alliance (PAA) “will provide importers and
exporters with the opportunity to conduct secure,
electronic, paperless cross order trade with the
Philippines’ major markets in the region.”
INS
claims to be the leading value- added service provider (VASP)
for the Bureau of Customs, Peza and Clark Free port
trade transactions. Meanwhile, the PAA, a group of
150,000 organizations, represents almost all active
trading enterprises in the Asian market, including
Tradelink of Hong Kong, Trade-Van of Chinese Taipei,
CrimsonLogic of Singapore, KTNet of Korea, CIECC of
China, TEDI Club of Japan, DagangNet of Malaysia, TEDMEV
of Macau and CAT Telecom Public Co. Ltd. of Thailand,
Tradegate of Australia and recently, INS of the
Philippines. The group’s members are mainly based in
Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea,
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia—economies
which account for high growth areas for Philippine
imports and exports.
“InterCommerce will be able to provide its customers
with commercial information covering those markets in an
electronic data format, which may be integrated to their
business applications. This will facilitate trade,
exchange of B2B [business-to-business] transaction data,
reduce delays in Customs clearance and improve the
accuracy of data, thereby further streamlining the
import/export process,” Francis Lopez, president of
InterCommerce, said in the same statement.
According to Lopez, INS’s alliance membership will allow
the company to offer more value-added services to its
forwarder clients.
“The
advanced receipt of the airway bill and consolidated
manifest data will be converted into the Asycuda
[Automated System for Customs Data] format and
transmitted to Customs. Also, the data can be downloaded
for integration to back-office freight management and
Customs brokerage software application, e.g., WebCWS,”
Lopez said.
InterCommerce is currently proposing to enable local
forwarders to transmit AWBs in electronic data format to
its principal in Korea, through PAA members INS and
KTNet.
“The
advanced submission of AWB data enables the logistics
provider in Korea to clear imports faster from the
Philippines, enhancing delivery throughput cycle times,”
Lopez said.
“With
the Revised Kyoto Convention, the Asean Single Window,
Philippine bilateral agreements with China, Japan and
Korea and the harmonization of trade documentation and
processes at the Clark-Subic-Kaoshiung Economic
Corridor, it is becoming more critical that being a
VASP, INS has the IT infrastructure and collaborative
arrangements to handle not only local electronic trade
transactions, but more important, for global B2B
transactions of its customers and trading partners,”
Lopez said. |
