1131_ZU1921001_跨境數位貿易_Cross Border Digital Trade

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.

Class Topics Overview

Week

Date

Subject

Case Discussion & Activity

Assignments

1

9/11

Introduction to Course Syllabus

Background and Introduction to International Trade

Self Introduction and Grouping

2

9/18

Costs and Challenges of Digital Trade

  • l  Physical documentation

  • l  Regulatory Requirements

  • l  Non-Tariff Barriers

Reading: The Costs and Challenges of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures

Reading: The Digital Trade Era – Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries

3

9/25

Digital Transformation Path of International Trade

  • l  Electronic Data Interchange

  • l  National Single Window

  • l  Regional Integration

  • l  Global Initiatives

Reading: Handbook of Measuring Digital Trade

4

10/2

National Single Window

  • l  UN Recommendation and Guidelines on Establishing a Single Window

  • l  Different models of single window

Reading: Recommendation and Guidelines on Establishing a Single Window

Reading: Organizational Transformation Using Electronic Data Interchange: The Case of TradeNet in Singapore

Class Activity: Country survey

Country survey

5

10/9

Guest Speaker: Mr. Sean Kuei, Executive Officer of Taiwan Bureau of Foreign Trade

Title: The discussions of digital trade in multilateral trading system

6

10/16

Trade Facilitation in Taiwan
l Customs Clearance Automation

Reading: Single Window for Trade Facilitation: Regional Best Practices and Future


  • l  Trade Facilitation

  • l  National Single Window

Development

7

10/23

Digital Trade Payment

8

10/30

Trade Finance System

9

11/6

Public and Private Partnership (PPP) for Trade Facilitation

  • l  Public Policies

  • l  Private Initiatives

  • l  Examples of PPP Collaboration in

    Trade Facilitation

10

11/13

Final Project Preparation

Individual/Group meeting with instructor

11

11/20

Case Study: Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance

  • l  Interconnectivity and Interoperability

  • l  Legal framework

    Trusted network

Case: Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance

Midterm Paper: A review of your country’s digital trade initiatives

12

11/27

Regional Initiatives in Trade Facilitation

  • l  ASEAN Single Window

  • l  EU Single Window APEC Digital Trade Agenda

  • l  APEC Strategies

  • l  APEC Projects

Case: APEC ECO Pathfinder Project

Reading: Facilitating Electronic Commerce in APEC: A Case Study of Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO)

Reading: APEC Framework for Securing the Digital Economy

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

13

12/4

Key Success Factors and Evaluation Tools for Digital Trade

  • l  Key Success Factors

  • l  Evaluation Tools

Reading: Study on Single Window Systems’ International Interoperability: Key Issues for Its Implementation

Class Activity: Digital Trade Evaluation Tools

14

12/11

Guest Speaker: Ambassador Tu Taiwan’s Role in Global Trade

15

12/18

Regional Integration and Free Trade Agreements

  • l  WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

  • l  Contribution of Digital Trade to Free

    Trade Agreement

  • l  Impact of Digital Trade on Trade

    Costs

Reading: Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements

Reading: Digitalising Trade Facilitation Implementation

Reading: Impact of Implementation of Digital Trade

Course Reflection #2


Facilitation on Trade Costs

Class Activity: Final Project Proposal

Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, AI and Blockchain in Digital Trade

  • l  Cloud Computing

  • l  Big Data Analytics in Digital Trade

  • l  AI in Digital Trade

  • l  Blockchain for Trade

    • n  Blockchain application

    • n  Blockchain Projects in Trade

    • n  Cross Border Blockchain for

      Trade

Reading: Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration

System Demonstration: Cross Border Blockchain for Trade

16

12/25

Final Presentation

Team Presentations of Final Project

Final Project: Best Practices of Cross Border Digital Trade

17

1/1

Public Holiday

No Class

18

1/8

Course Review

Wrap Up and Review

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 

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.