Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
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.
能力項目說明
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
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Tentative class schedule
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Class Topics Overview |
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9/13 |
Introduction to Course Syllabus Background and Introduction to International Trade |
Self Introduction and Grouping |
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2 |
9/20 |
Costs and Challenges of Digital Trade
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Reading: The Costs and Challenges of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures Reading: The Digital Trade Era – Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries |
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3 |
9/27 |
Digital Transformation Path of International Trade
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Reading: Handbook of Measuring Digital Trade |
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4 |
10/4 |
National Single Window
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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 |
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5 |
10/11 |
Guest Speaker: Mr. Sean Kuei, Executive Officer of Taiwan Bureau of Foreign Trade Title: The discussions of digital trade in multilateral trading system |
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6 |
10/18 |
Trade Facilitation in Taiwan
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Reading: Single Window for Trade Facilitation: Regional Best Practices and Future Development |
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7 |
10/25 |
Digital Trade Payment |
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Course Reflection #1 |
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8 |
11/1 |
Trade Finance System |
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9 |
11/8 |
Public and Private Partnership (PPP) for Trade Facilitation
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10 |
11/15 |
Case Study: Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance
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Case: Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance
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Midterm Paper: A review of your country’s digital trade initiatives |
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11 |
11/22 |
Final Project Preparation |
Class Activity: Individual/Group meeting with instructor |
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12 |
11/29 |
Regional Initiatives in Trade Facilitation
APEC Digital Trade Agenda
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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 |
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13 |
12/6 |
Key Success Factors and Evaluation Tools for Digital Trade
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Reading: Study on Single Window Systems’ International Interoperability: Key Issues for Its Implementation Class Activity: Digital Trade Evaluation Tools |
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14 |
12/13 |
Regional Integration and Free Trade Agreements
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Reading: Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements Reading: Digitalising Trade Facilitation Implementation Reading: Impact of Implementation of Digital Trade Facilitation on Trade Costs Class Activity: Final Project Proposal |
Course Reflection #2 |
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15 |
12/20 |
Guest Speaker:
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16 |
12/27 |
Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, AI and Blockchain in Digital Trade
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Reading: Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration System Demonstration: Cross Border Blockchain for Trade |
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17 |
1/3 |
Final Presentation |
Team Presentations of Final Project |
Final Project: Best Practices of Cross Border Digital Trade |
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18 |
1/10 |
Course Review |
Wrap Up and Review |
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The final grade consists of:
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.
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.
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.
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.