The 7th ATA Annual Meeting was held in Taipei, 2nd/Oct to 3rd/Oct.


There attended Taiwan as Host, US, Japan as Stable Members, Vietnam as a new member, Malaysia, Thai as Observers, China as Special guest and was approved as a new observer in the meeting. Unfortunately Singapore, Korea and Mexico were absent.



As Very strong supporter, GBDe also joined the meeting. They agreed ATA as cross seat member. APEC also supports ATA and join the discussion. Especially, GBDe presented ICA-Net to improve international dispute solution with a new system, Community style platform for loose communication. It was explained in a previous entry in this blog, please check it again.



I attended as a respresentative for TradeSafe Corp to report a current status and make some discussion.



I think Asia and Pacific countries are really interested in e-commerce and also warry about Privacy. The role of ATA will become more important. Japan is now a role of vice chair, preparing for Chair country in Next year. JIPDEC and ECOM were also attending as observer, expected to be a important role for that meaning.

Next meeting would be planned for a ceremony to welcome Thai as a new member.