E-cert Experiences
China’s Journey
AQSIQ
March 2010
Table of Contents
• Certification for food and
agriculture products in China
• E-cert in China
• Introduction to our E-cert system
• What have we learnt?
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Certification for food and
agriculture products in China
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certificates AQSIQ is responsible
Plenty of certificates are issued
A large number of certificates at import
Large trade flows of agricultural products
Re-export occurs frequently
Logistics and good inspection are important
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Table of Contents
• Certification for food and agriculture
products in China
• E-cert in China
• Introduction to our E-cert system
• What have we learnt?
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How can we
improve efficiencies?
Assure the
authenticity of
Certs?
reduce fraudulent
activities?
The answer:
E-cert!
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E-cert in China
 2000
Manual
CIQ2000 System
IT
2002 Electronic Application System
Business
Government
2007 data share with Customs
Department
Department
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E-cert in China
• 2007 began to develop E-cert system
(Information exchange & verification
system)
• 2008 finished the business
requirements
• 2009 finished the system
• Now running on line
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E-cert in China
Extensive international
communication and cooperation
with NZ MAF
with AQIS
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E-cert in China
PAPER
DATA
AQSIQ continues to
work with our
counterparts to
achieve
government to
government
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <certificates>
- <ificate no="2040670" status="Approved">
- <exporting_country country_code="AU">
<country_name>Australia</country_name>
<competent_authority>Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry</competent_authority>
</exporting_country>
- <importing_country country_code="ID">
<country_name>INDONESIA</country_name>
</importing_country>
- <title>
<text language="EN">PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE</text>
</title>
- <exporter id="99999">
<name>A AQIS 5 TEST EXPORTER</name>
<address>EDMUND BARTON BUILDING A, BROUGHTON
STREET A, BARTON A, CANBERRA ACT 2600,
Australia</address>
</exporter>
- <consignee>
<name>TO ORDER - INDONESIA</name>
<address>., ., INDONESIA</address>
</consignee>
<final_destination>JAKARTA/SURUBAYA</final_destination>
<inspection_port country_code="ID"
city_code="IDJKT">TANJUNG PRIOK/JAKARTA,
JAVA</inspection_port>
- <transport means="Sea">
<vessel>BALTRUM TRADER</vessel>
<conveyance_ref>841</conveyance_ref>
</transport>
paperless trading of
export certificates
via the E-cert.
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Table of Contents
• Certification for food and agriculture
products in China
• E-cert in China
• Introduction to our E-cert system
• What have we learnt?
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Introduction to our system
--What is E-cert System ?
• E-cert System is an electronic
certification system
• It bases on website
• Information may be downloaded into
automated clearance systems or
viewed on the internet
• Information is exchanged G2G
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Introduction to our system
--System Objectives
 Unity
 Security
 Reliability
 Flexibility
 Simplicity
 Affordability
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Introduction to our system
--Function Structure Diagram
China E-cert System
Exporting
Importing
certificate
certificate
Verification
Verification
Sub- system
Sub- system
(for foreign users)
(for Chinese users)
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Subsystem
Overall Business
Diagram
View on website
Feedback
Local
authority
SMTP
SOAP
Local
authority
Electronic
certificate
E-cert System
Verification
Imp. Authority
Local
authority
printed
certificate
Exporter
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Subsystem
Access to the system
System access is flexible
• Three methods to access
– Secure Website
– SOAP Interface “Pull Technology”
– SMTP Interface “Push Technology ”
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Subsystem
Secure Website Access
• Provides manual access to E-cert data
• Requires internet access and logon/password
to enter
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Benefit to low volume import authorities
Benefit to de-centralised import clearance
Export Certification can be viewed and verified
Export Certification can be downloaded
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Security of Website Access
• Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTPS)
• 128 bit encryption between Web
browser and Web server
• Login and Password authentication
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website --Register
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CLICK “SAVE”!
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Modify Information
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Registry States
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Registration Approval (authorized AQSIQ admin only)
pass
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
• Presentation of Secure Website –
Registration Approval (authorized AQSIQ admin only)
reject
reason
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Change Password
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website --Logging On
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
E-Cert Verification
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
E-Cert Verification （Set Chinese Language
Support）
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
E-Cert Verification （Search / Reset）
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
E-Cert Verification
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Text Cert Verification
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Text Cert Verification ( Search / Reset)
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Text Cert Verification
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website -Verification Outcomes
Accept
Request
Refuse
Reason
Matter
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website Access —
Feedback to Certificate Query (AQSIQ Only)
Feedback
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
E-Cert View
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
Presentation of Secure Website –
Text Certificate View
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
SOAP INTERFACE(PULL DATA)
• Provides automated access to E-cert data
• Easily adaptable to centralised or
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decentralised import clearance
Import authority may collect XML data as
needed
Data collected from secure Webservice
Requires login/password to collect data
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
SOAP INTERFACE(PULL DATA)
• Security: same as Web Screen Interface
• Importing Country SOAP client “pulls”
data from AQSIQ Web Service
Internet
Importing country SOAP client
E-cert Web Service
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
SMTP Interface (push data)
• Provides complete automation for data
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exchange
Suited to high volume import authorities
Suited to centralised import clearance
process
Secured by SMTP Protocols for digital
signature and encryption
Certification is sent immediately to
importing country
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
SMTP Interface (push data)
SMTP containing signed, encrypted E-cert Certificate
Internet
Chinese E-cert System
SMTP containing signed, encrypted E-cert Acknowledgement
Importing E-cert System
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Introduction to our system
-- Exporting Certificate Verification Sub- system
SOAP/SMTP Interface – message format
• E-cert System utilises
XML to define and
transmit data
• China uses an XML
Schema to validate Ecert Certificates
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <certificates>
- <ificate no="2040670" status="Approved">
- <exporting_country country_code="AU">
<country_name>Australia</country_name>
<competent_authority>Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry</competent_authority>
</exporting_country>
- <importing_country country_code="ID">
<country_name>INDONESIA</country_name>
</importing_country>
- <title>
<text language="EN">PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE</text>
</title>
- <exporter id="99999">
<name>A AQIS 5 TEST EXPORTER</name>
<address>EDMUND BARTON BUILDING A, BROUGHTON
STREET A, BARTON A, CANBERRA ACT 2600,
Australia</address>
</exporter>
- <consignee>
<name>TO ORDER - INDONESIA</name>
<address>., ., INDONESIA</address>
</consignee>
<final_destination>JAKARTA/SURUBAYA</final_destination>
<inspection_port country_code="ID"
city_code="IDJKT">TANJUNG PRIOK/JAKARTA,
JAVA</inspection_port>
- <transport means="Sea">
<vessel>BALTRUM TRADER</vessel>
<conveyance_ref>841</conveyance_ref>
</transport>
※ It’s important that the countries use the same
XML Scheme .
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Introduction to our system
--Importing Certificate Verification Sub- system
• Certificate Data acquisition
• Imp. Certificate Data verification
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Introduction to our system
--Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
Certificate Data acquisition
---Automatic acquisition
X
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Foreign system
Chinese system
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing Certificate Verification Sub- system
Automatic Acquisition
– Chinese and foreign message mapping
Maintain the countries’ name, classes, subclasses,
source value and goal value in certificates from home
and aboard to replace the different content from different
countries through setting when an electronic certificate is
imported and to unify codes and names in Certificate
Verification System for future statistics.
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing Certificate Verification Sub- system
Automatic Acquisition-foreign certificate format maintenance
Maintain certificates format (XSD) from different countries
to Validate and decode XML cert and Extract main data
XML
XSD
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Introduction to our system
--Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
• Automatic Acquisition—Main data
Cert. No.
Issue date
exp. country
Description of goods
Cert. type
Quantity/weight
Consignor
Type of package
Consignee
quantity of package
Port of departure
Container No.
Port of discharge Verifying state
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
manual Acquisition—
Certificate Input by foreign
authority (For certificates which are
not transmitted automatically to
our system , the contents of the certificate can be entered manually by
the foreign authority )
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
manual Acquisition— Certificate Input (Search)
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
manual Acquisition— Certificate Input (New)
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Introduction to our system
-- Importing certificate Verification Sub- system
manual Acquisition—
Certificate Input (Modify )
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Introduction to our system
--Importing Certificate Verification Sub- system
Imp. Certificate Data verification
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Accept
Refuse
Request
Replace
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Introduction to our system
---Implementation
• Phase I: View on website
• Phase II: Trial with agreed countries on
computer to computer Transmission
• Phase Ⅲ:
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Table of Contents
• Certification for food and agriculture
products in China
• E-cert in China
• Introduction to our E-cert system
• What have we learnt?
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What have we learnt?
•Electronic exchange of data is
significantly more efficient and
secure than printed certificates
•Considerable investment required
to deal with non-standard data
requirements
•Agreement on technology and
method of implementation is
critical
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What have we learnt?
• Agree rules of engagement up-front
(i.e. dealing with updates to the
systems, notification of system outages,
handling support issues, etc.)
•Support of broken interfaces can be
weighted with problems (multiple
languages across different time zones)
•A transition period is essential
(suggest at least 3 months be allowed)
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Contact
Mr. Xu Shuliang
Department of Inspection and
Quarantine Clearance, AQSIQ
E-mail Address: xusl@aqsiq.gov.cn
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