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The Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry’s project ‘EC/EDI (Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange) for Trade’ has been nominated for e-Asia Award in the category of trade facilitation by Asia-Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (AFACT). The project, pursued by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, National Informatics Centre (NIC) in cooperation with Customs, DGFT, Ports, Airports, RBI, CONCOR and Banks, was short-listed in the initial review, among the top six projects of the Asia-Pacific region. The project was selected as the best project and awarded the e-Asia winners trophy at Chinese Taipei on 24th September, 2004.
These awards are constituted to recognise the significance and efforts made in the areas of trade facilitation and e-business and to encourage experience sharing in the Asia-Pacific region. 16 countries and economies which includes Australia, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mangolia, People’s Republic of China, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, being members of AFACT participated for this honour.
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