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二零一七年年報
貿易通電子貿易有限公司
Chairman’s Statement
(Continued)
主席報告書
（續）
Prospects
While the general sentiment towards the global economy in 2018
continues to be optimistic, certain economic uncertainties including those
linked to the Brexit negotiations, possible adverse effects on global trade
and economy due to the US trade policy and protectionism warrant
some attention. Closer to home, other factors such as the possible rise
of the interest rates in Hong Kong due to the continuous and gradual
interest rate hikes of the US Federal Reserve and the sustainability of a
stable growth of the China economy, are likely to have a more direct
impact on the Hong Kong economy which may affect somewhat our
core e-commerce business.
Nonetheless, we are reasonably optimistic about the outlook of our core
business in GETS in 2018. We expect the operating environment for
GETS to be stable in 2018 since the Government has announced the
award of the new GETS licence from 2019 to 2024 (plus possible
extension up to 2027) to us, and the other two existing GETS service
providers. With the same three players continuing under the new GETS
licence regime, we anticipate a familiar competitive environment. As
always with our well proven stable and quality services provided to our
customers for more than two decades, we are confident that we shall
continue to uphold our dominant market share in GETS in 2018 and
beyond under the new licence. As the GETS market has proved to be
rather robust and resilient, barring any unforeseen circumstances
substantially upsetting the Hong Kong trading environment, we expect
our GETS business to remain a stable one in 2018.
As regards the bigger picture about the Government’s Trade Single
Window (“SW”) implementation which will be rolled out in 3 phases and
eventually take over GETS earliest by 2024 as their original plan, we are
closely monitoring the progress and development of this mega project.
So far the official public message (in the Chief Executive’s 2017 Policy
Address statement) is that the first phase of the SW involving voluntary
submission of thirteen trade documents under existing law is scheduled
to be launched in mid-2018. Regarding SW phases 2 and 3 which
would impact the GETS market, marginally for phase 2 and more
significantly for phase 3, the actual implementation arrangements and
progress will depend on the policy development, new legislation
enactment and amendments to some forty pieces of existing legislations,
funding approval for the system design and development and the actual
time required for the system development work. While the Government
have started engaging industry stakeholders to provide advice to the SW
implementation details, as an incumbent GETS service provider and a
potential value-added service provider (“VASP”) under the future SW, we
are keeping close eyes on the likely future SW operating and business
environment for VASPs leading to potential opportunities and threats to
our business in the medium to long term. We would gear up our
resources to participate actively in their consultation process as and
when appropriate and formulate our strategy accordingly in the light of
the actual development of the SW project.
前景
儘管二零一八年環球經濟整體氣氛維持樂觀，但
若干經濟不明朗因素亦不可忽視，當中包括英國
脫歐談判、美國貿易政策及保護主義可能對環球
貿易及經濟造成的不利影響。回望香港，美國聯
邦儲備局多次逐步調高利率，導致香港或會跟隨
加息，加上中國經濟可否維持穩步增長等其他因
素，均可能對香港經濟造成更直接影響，使我們
之核心電子商貿業務亦有機會受牽連。
縱然如此，於二零一八年我們對
GETS
核心業務前
景抱持樂觀態度。由於政府已宣佈向我們及其他
兩個現有
GETS
服務供應商簽發新
GETS
牌照，年期
為二零一九年至二零二四年（且有望延長至二零
二七年），我們預期
GETS
於二零一八年之經營環
境維持穩定。新
GETS
牌照制度下仍是現行三家服
務供應商繼續營運，我們預期會維持相近的競爭
環境。憑藉我們逾廿載一直為客戶提供可靠優質
服務的佳績，我們充滿信心於二零一八年及往後
在新牌照下，繼續穩佔
GET
市場的領先地位。
GETS
市場往往能保持穩健並展現其抗逆力，除非
遇上不可預見之情況對香港貿易環境造成重大影
響，我們預期
GETS
業務於二零一八年維持穩健。
就政府實施之貿易單一窗口（「單一窗口」）之概
況，該項目按原定計劃會分三個階段推出，最早
於二零二四年取代
GETS
，我們一直密切留意這個
大型項目的進展。至今，官方公開信息（載於行政
長官之二零一七年施政報告）指單一窗口第一階
段涉及根據現有法例可自願提交的十三項貿易文
件，預計於二零一八年年中推出。鑒於單一窗口
第二及三階段將會對
GETS
市場帶來影響，第二階
段的影響程度較為輕微，而第三階段的影響則較
大，確實推行安排及進度視乎政策發展、新法例
生效及四十多項現有法例修訂、系統設計及開發
資金審批以及系統開發工作實際所需時間而定。
政府已開始邀請業界持分者就實施單一窗口的詳
情提供意見，作為現任
GETS
服務供應商及未來單
一窗口下之潛在增值服務供應商（「增值服務供應
商」），我們密切關注在未來單一窗口下，增值服
務供應商面對的經營及營商環境，就中長期而言
所帶來的潛在機遇與挑戰。我們會準備好所需資
源，於適當時候積極參與諮詢過程，因應單一窗
口計劃之實際發展制定我們的策略。