A Study on the Simplication of International Trade Procedures and International EDI Standards

EDI거래하에서의 무역절차간소화.표준화의 고찰

This article studies certain standards which have been developed for exchanging information about business and trading transactions, both nationally and internationally. In this context standards means standardised ways of representing trade information and standardised procedures for communicating it in computer-based environments. Early in the 1960s, the United Nations UN/ECE working party was formed. The purpose of the this organization was to simplify and standardize trade document. This organization eventually evolved into what is currently known as EDIFACT, the international EDI standards organization. EDIFACT is the basis for agreement on a common structure for documents such as those used for trading(e.g., orders, invoices), so that they can be interchanged electronically between computer systems. The standard was ratified in 1987 and has already been adopted by many EDI users for the earlier European and American standards for trading data interchange called UN/TDl and ANSI Xl2 respectively.

최근 정보통신기술 및 통신인프라의 발전은 의사나 정보의 교환방식에 급격한 변화를 가져왔다. 즉, 기존에 종이서류에 의존하던 국제무역이 전자적 방식에 의한 정보, 문서의 교환이라 할 수 있는 전자문서교환(Electronic Data Interchange; EBI)에 의해 그 절차가 간소화되었다. EDI를 통한 무역절차의 간소화 및 국제표준화에 대하여 UN구주경제위원회(UN/ECE)·무역확대위원회(CDT)산하에 있는 무역절차간소화작업부회(WP.4)의 활동을 중심으로 고찰한다. 제시한다.