Strategies to Implement AEO Certification into Bonded Factories in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Lin, Kuan Lung, 林堃龍
• Other Authors: Tao Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61166438906152438224

碩士 === 開南大學 === 物流與航運管理學系 === 99 === After the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, two security initiatives in international logistics and supply chain have been introduced by both the US and the EU. The US has introduced the Customs and Traders Partnership Against Terrorism, whereas the EU has introduced the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) to promote security in the global supply chain. Based on these initiatives, the World Customs Organization has introduced the Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade to define clearly the certification procedures to secure the flow in international logistics and supply chain. To cope with these initiatives and to promote the AEO, Taiwan finalized its legal processing of the AEO certification in 2010. The Taiwan government believes that companies with AEO certification would enjoy the benefit of speedy customs clearance and attract more business from customers in the US and EU markets, facilitating international trade. The goal of this study is to examine the strategies that Taiwan should undertake to implement and promote the AEO certification of companies participating in Taiwan’s supply chain. Due to the restriction of the research capacity, the research scope is limited to the “bonded factory” only instead of covering all the companies in the supply chain. The study is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the development of AEO in Taiwan and presents a literature review on AEO. The second part discusses the legal procedures for the certification of both “bonded factory” and AEO. The third part examines the result of a survey of senior managers of “bonded factories” on the importance of AEO to their business in the future. The fourth part compares the differences between the certification of a “bonded factory” and AEO to determine the differences in the procedures and whether simplified procedures could be made for a “bonded factory” to meet the requirements for AEO. The research findings may help Taiwan in speed up its certification of the AEO as well as benefit the other members of the supply chain in Taiwan.