32th AFACT Annual Meetings AFACT Secretariat Report Mahmood Zargar General secretary Bangkok, Thailand Nov., 2014

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

Members Australia Indonesia Iran Pakistan Chinese Taipei Korea Japan Mongolia Malaysia China Sri Lanka Philippines Thailand Singapore Vietnam Cambodia Associate Members: PAA (Pan Asia eCom Alliance)PAA (Pan Asia eCom Alliance) UNESCAPUNESCAP Saudi Arabia India Afghanistan

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

AFACTStructure AFACT Structure

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

AFACTStCMembersin2014 AFACT StC Members in 2014 Wanawit Ahkuputra AFACT Chair Thailand Ms LAI VIET ANH AFACT Vice Chair Vietnam Dr. Mahmood Zargar AFACT General Secretary Iran Mr. Mohammad Garakani Neghad AFACT Vice Chair Iran UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia and Pacific - Elected HoD Japan Hisanao Sugamata Chairman of Technology and Methodology Committee Japan Dr. Reng Weng Gong Elected HoD Chinese Taipei Dr. Eva Yueh Chairman of community Support Committee Chinese Taipei Seok-Koo Ji Elected HoD Korea Mrs. Jasmine Jang Chairman of Business Domain Committee Korea Tahseen Ahmed Khan UN/CEFACT Vice Chair India Yann Louis Duval ESCAP Representative French

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

2014AFACTCommitteeChairs 2014 AFACT Committee Chairs Jasmine Jang Business Domain Committee Korea Hisanao Sugamata Technology and Methodology Committee Japan Dr. Eva Yueh Committee Support Committee Chinese Taipei

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

HostingMembersUpdate Hosting Members Update Hosting Year Hosting Member 2014 Thailand 2015 (eASIA Award) Iran 2016 Korea (not Finalized Yet)

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

AFACT Registration as an NGO As you know, APCFACT is registered in Iran in 2012 (KISH Island) in 12 Aug AFACT Secretariat did the registration process in ECOSOC website, but not accepted because the date of APCFACT registration in KISH is after June first 2012 which is less than two year until the same date in They mentioned that we need to apply for the next year.

CONTENT  Members  Current Structure of AFACT  AFACT StC Members  Committee Chairs  Hosting Members  Applying for AFACT Registration  Preparing AFACT Year Book  AFACT Website

Afact Official Website Visitors from May

APTFF – 27 Bangkok sp International Logistics Fair – 27 Sep 2014 Bangkok

Participation at the Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2014, as well as the Exhibition on Trade Facilitation held in parallel and ROC-TF meeting back-to-back with the Forum in Bangkok from 23 to 27 September The summary of recommendations identified from the substantive sessions of the Forum as well as all presentations made during the various Forum sessions are available at:

This year’s Forum under the theme of “trade facilitation for inclusive development” was attended by more than 250 participants including policy makers, trade facilitation officials, experts, practitioners and development agencies from over 40 countries of the region and beyond, bringing together an extraordinary wealth of knowledge and experience on trade facilitation.

ISO TC Oct 2014 at Seoul - Korea

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