Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce has launched eCertify, an automated, web-based Certificate of Origin processing service, to make life easier for hundreds of exporters and freight forwarders.
The innovative new service, provided by global trade software company eCertify, has already attracted more than 60 registrations, including exporters from Hawaii and San Diego as well as the Los Angeles area.
“Manual processing of Certificates of Origin limited the service to exporters in close proximity,” said eCertify President and Founder Carman Rossi. “Now the L.A. Chamber can provide services to exporters farther afield. eCertify saves courier costs, reduces turnaround time and is more efficient irrespective of the distance from the chamber.”
Certificates of Origin are mandatory to validate goods for export to most countries – they have been used in one form or another for more than a century, since the days when sailing ships moved goods around the globe.
eCertify is the first solution to remove the cumbersome manual processes of stamping and signing, and was endorsed by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives at the 2009 ACCE Convention in Raleigh, NC.
The L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce is the largest chamber of commerce in Southern California. It represents more than 750,000 employees in the region and strongly supports Global Trade initiatives.
“Our exporters are looking for ways to reduce time and speed up delivery,” said L.A. Area Chamber President and CEO Gary Toebben. “eCertify means fewer manual processes, fewer errors and speedier delivery through technology that takes minutes instead of hours and days. It gives exporters a competitive advantage.”
eCertify has been deployed globally using a web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model together with PayPal for immediate payment to streamline implementation and reduce administration time and cost.
Mr Rossi said that eCertify automates the final step for export documentation in the global supply chain.
“More than 20 U.S. Chambers have now registered to use eCertify,” he said. “It’s a lean, green solution that reduces paper usage, costs and time to market.”
Studies conducted by eCertify show that the solution could save US exporters direct costs of $500 million a year.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Carman Rossi,
President and Founder,
eCertify
Cell: +1 917 803 7666
http://www.ecertify.com/
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