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Syllabus of
Course Title: Cross Border Digital Trade

Fall Semester, 2024

Instructor: Alicia Say

General Information

Date: September 2024 – December 2024 Time: Wednesday 09:10 – 12:00 Faculty: Alicia Say
Email: A.say@nccu.edu.tw

Nature and Scope

International trade is the economic backbone of most countries in the world. The development of information technologies has pushed forward the trade facilitation and digitalization of cross border exchange. The digital transformation of international trade has reduced the operation time and costs, facilitated the global value chain, and connected the trade and logistics communities globally.

Cross border digital trade attracts higher attention than ever in the post COVID-19 era. While normal international trade procedures and operations which are heavily dependent on paper-documents are interrupted, the use of technologies helps to make the international trade more resilient and lower the barriers of physical documentation. International initiatives as well as respective government’s actions in the implementation of cross border digital trade to increase the scale, scope and speed of trade will be introduced in this course. Challenges including the adoption of new technologies, policy and regulation issues, change of user behavior during the implementation of cross border digital trade will also be discussed in the course.

This course aims to develop students’ knowledge about the digitalization of international trade for increasing their competitive edges in the global business setting.

Course Objectives:

This course is targeted at achieving the following objectives:
1. To enable students with knowledge of cross border digital trade

2. To equip students with the knowledge of the emerging information technologies in international trade

3. To prepare students who wish to enter into global trade businesses

Class Contract

As the course instructor, I aim to help students develop their knowledge of cross border digital trade beyond the textbook. To facilitate an engaging learning environment, this class employs a range of activities that draw from the readings, in-class discussion, case studies and live system demonstration that help students understand the essence and application of the assigned materials.

In return, students are expected to attend and actively engage with their classmates in discussions and other class activities and to enable this by preparing in advance and avoiding academic dishonesty (including plagiarism). Students who are unable to attend class should please contact the course instructor in advance to apply for a leave of absence. For group activities, students should also inform their group members.

Students must acknowledge all instances in which generative AI tools were used in an assignment (such as in ideation, research, analysis, editing, debugging, etc.).

Time: Wednesday 09:10 – 12:00 Tentative class schedule

Learning Materials

1. APEC Framework for Securing the Digital Economy; APEC TEL

2. Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration; Proceedings of

   the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2017

3. Digital trade facilitation: Paperless trade in regional trade agreements; ADBI

   Working Paper, No. 747

4. Digitalising Trade Facilitation Implementation; The Commonwealth, 160

5. Facilitating Electronic Commerce in APEC: A Case Study of Electronic Certificate

   of Origin (e-CO); APEC Policy Support Unit, 2011

6. Handbook of Measuring Digital Trade, OECD, 2020

7. Impact of Implementation of Digital Trade Facilitation on Trade Costs; ARTNeT

   Working Paper Series, No. 174

8. Next-generation Trade Facilitation for Asian Integration: Cross- border Paperless

   Trade; Journal of Asian Economic Integration 1(1) 11–31, 2019

9. Organizational Transformation Using Electronic Data Interchange: The Case of

   TradeNet in Singapore; Journal of Management Information Systems, 2015

10. Recommendation and Guidelines on Establishing a Single Window; United

    Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)

11. Study on Single Window Systems’ International Interoperability: Key Issues for Its

    Implementation; APEC Policy Support Unit, 2018 

Cross Border Digital Trade

Syllabus

12. The Costs and Challenges of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures; OECD Trade Policy Papers No. 157

Grading Policy

The final grade consists of:

1. Attendance&Participation20%

The various in-class activities will include case discussion, class participation, and peer review. Students who are unable to attend class should please apply for a leave of absence in advance.

2. CourseReflection20%

The class reflection should consist of the students’ takeaway, lesson learnt, or insights from the course. It should be a maximum of 2-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double-spaced.

3. Midterm Paper - A review of your country’s digital trade initiatives 30%

The midterm paper is an individual assignment to understand the students’ knowledge about digital trade. Each student shall write a short review paper about the digital trade initiatives of their respective countries. This assignment should include the concepts from previous lessons, including the challenges faced in the digital trade implementation, the implementation steps, the reengineered processes, the benefits of the digital trade projects and the students’ comments about the current status.

It should be a maximum of 5-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double- spaced.

4. FinalPresentation–Best Practices of Cross Border Digital Trade 30%

The final project is a group project. More explanation on group sizes and how the assignment can be conducted will be provided in class.

Prior to the final presentation, students will be arranged a session to present their proposal about their final projects for obtaining feedback from the instructor and classmates.

Each team shall present a best practice or a new idea of cross border digital trade implementation for the final project. The final project includes an oral presentation and a 2-pages executive summary.