• 통상정보연구
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.29-55
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• 2015

국제무역거래를 수행하는 과정에는 거래 관련 제비용이 수반되며, 이러한 비용은 국가별 경쟁 및 기업간 경쟁의 주요한 변수이기 때문에 제비용 및 시간의 절감을 통한 경쟁력 강화는 필수 요건이다. 본 연구에서는 기존연구의 문헌적 자료를 기반으로 2014년 11월 27일 타결된 WTO 무역원활화협정(Trade Facilitation Agreement)의 주요 논의 및 내용을 기반으로 무역원활화를 위한 전자무역의 역할을 살펴보았다. 무역원활화협정에서 제1절과 제2절에 다수의 조항들이 전자무역과 관련된 사항들이 나열되었으며, 공통적인 특징은 인터넷을 기반으로 전자화된 서류는 정보와 서류의 흐름을 신속하게 하며 시간과 비용을 절약할 수 있기 때문에 적극 활용하도록 권고하고 있다. 급변하는 국제통상환경하에서 전자무역은 기업 및 국가의 경쟁력을 달성할 수 있는 중요한 수단중의 하나이며, 이러한 효과를 극대화하기 위해서는 무역원활화를 위한 전자무역관련 기술을 지속적으로 개발하고 국가간에 교류가 요구된다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.163-181
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to review the major issues of trade facilitation that have been discussing in relevant international organization such as WTO, WCO, UN/ECE, and UNCTAD In recent years the term, trade facilitation, has become extremely popular and, therefore, applied to an ever-growing number of activities. Trade Facilitation encompasses the simplification, standardization, harmonization and elimination of the procedures, data requirements and administration involved in an international trade transaction. The facilitation of trade procedures is seen by all major international business as vital for economic development. Several factors are fuelling the need for trade facilitation of which two are the globalization of international trade and the rapid IT-development. Another important factor includes increased economic integration by an explosion of regional and bilateral free-trade agreement that often feature complex customs requirements. Technological progress has also introduced faster and cheaper forms of transportation and transportation management techniques, such as the increased use of e-business and JIT. The Internet is also fragmenting containers of goods that could have been custom cleared on a single entry into dozens of individual shipments that each require separate customs documents and clearance procedures. This creates a challenge for express couriers who anticipate exponential growth in small shipments by individual consumers, as compared to shipment by wholesalers or retailers. These consumers expect goods to be cleared immediately. It is no wonder that express couriers are actively promoting, and participating in the trade facilitation agenda.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.101-118
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• 2023

Purpose - Korea became a trillion-dollar trading country in 2011. With the exponential increase in Korea's trade volume over the past decades, trade-related administrative burdens per capita for Korea Customs became enormous, for which the government established the Single Window, a trade-facilitating system, in 2004 to enhance the efficiency of customs-clearing procedures for traders. This paper focuses on finding whether the Korean Single Window system affects the country's trade facilitation positively through an empirical methodology. Design/methodology - To find empirical evidence that Single Window affects trade facilitation for the customs-clearing procedure, this study assumes that a time-efficient environment enables the handling of the increase in trade volume, under which four independent variables related to import customs-clearing procedures and two dependent variables to import were adopted for empirical analysis. The import customs procedures are classified into four steps from port entry to declaration acceptance. To understand the relationship between variables, scattered plots and correlation coefficients were calculated. Eight hypotheses were set and underwent simple linear regression. The data for analysis were collected by Korea Customs, and were about the lead time of import, the volume of imports in million USD, and the number of import declarations reported to customs offices on a monthly basis from 2005 to 2013. Findings - Six of the eight hypotheses showed the statistically significant result that lead time in the import customs-clearing procedure positively affects the number of import declaration reports and import volume. Specifically, Hypothesis 1, Hypothesis 2, and Hypothesis 3 strongly support the assumption lead time in import customs declaration has an inverse relationship with the number of import declarations, which means that the shorter the import lead time, the more import declaration increases. Research Limitations/Implications - With limited data accessibility to the government's custom-sclearing procedures, only the import lead time for customs clearance were adopted as independent variables. This paper, however, successfully found that the Single Window system contributed to trade facilitation. Originality/value - This study found that the time-saving Single Window system of Korea Customs enables itself to manage an exponentially-increasing trade volume by creating a trade-facilitating environment for customs personnel and traders, which may be a unique implication found through quantitative methodology.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.702-714
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• 2013

한중일은 새로운 경제성장을 위한 고민과 더불어 외자를 유치함에 있어 새로운 도전과 어려움에 직면해 있다. 향후 한중일 FTA는 3국간의 투자를 더욱 촉진 할 것으로 기대되고 있다. 이 논문은 한중일 3국간의 투자에 관한 법적체계와 제약요소 및 투자규칙에 관한 연구를 하였다. 3국간의 무역경제 관계와 투자흐름을 검토하고, 이를 배경으로 3국의 외국투자에 관한 법적체계 및 투자규칙에 관한 검토를 통하여 상대국에 있어서 투자에 관한 주요한 제약이 무엇인지, 향후 한중일 FTA는 3국간의 투자를 더욱 촉진하기 위해서는 한중일 FTA 투자 장(章)에 포함해야 할 것이 무엇인지를 제시하고자 하였다. 한중일 FTA는 3방향의 투자 흐름을 원활화하고 3국간에 투자자와 투자보호를 강화하기위한 효과적인 수단이 될 것이다. 이 점에서 향후 한중일 FTA 투자 장은 내국민 대우, 최혜국대우, 특정조치의 이행요구의 금지 및 경영진이나 이사회의 국적 요건, 자금의 이전, 세이프가드 조치, 수용 및 보상, 손실에 대한 보상, 공정 형평 대우, 투자자 대 국가의 분쟁 해결 및 3국 간 합의 된 다른 요소를 포함해야한다.