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30 May 2013
With the financial support of the Japan Customs Cooperation fund, a mission recently took place in Hanoi, Vietnam under the umbrella of the WCO’s Revenue Package programme, designed to assist Customs administrations in the identification and collection of revenue legally due on imported goods.
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30 May 2013
New integrity newsletter
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30 May 2013
From 28 to 30 May 2013, the WCO organized the second Global Canine Forum in Moscow, Russian Federation. On 29 May, within the framework of the Forum, the WCO Regional Dog Training Centre for the Russian Federation was inaugurated.
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27 May 2013
At the invitation of Mr. James Lenaghan, Mauritius, Vice-Chair of the East and Southern Africa (ESA) Region, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 18th Meeting of the Governing Council hosted by the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) in Mangochi, Malawi on 23 and 24 May 2013
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27 May 2013
On 23 May 2013, Guinea-Bissau deposited with the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization its instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System).
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24 May 2013
The WCO Secretariat recently conducted a national workshop on Customs valuation in Suzhou
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24 May 2013
On 7 – 8 May 2013, the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting within the WCO-ESA Capacity Building Project took place in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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24 May 2013
The Nigeria Customs Service and the World Customs Organization recognize the vital need for Customs leaders and managers to enhance their ability to lead reform and modernize their organizations through a renewed professional approach to the management and operations of Customs.
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24 May 2013
The WCO, together with the Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB) and Kuwait Customs, organized a regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Capacity Building in Kuwait City on 14-16 April 2013
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23 May 2013
Regional Workshop on the Revised Kyoto Convention and the Economic Competitiveness Package, Malawi
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22 May 2013
With sponsorship from the Customs Co-operation Fund/Japan, the WCO and the Customs Administration of Burkina Faso jointly organized a Seminar for the West and Central Africa Region at the Regional Training Centre in Ouagadougou, focusing on supporting the implementation of WCO Standards related to the HS.
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21 May 2013
Dubai Communiqué
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17 May 2013
Cooperation between Customs and tax authorities emphasized at the OECD Forum in Russia
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16 May 2013
IT Conference & Exhibition in Dubai gathers a record number of participants
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13 May 2013
A WCO workshop on the topics of Enforcement, Risk Management and Pre-ferred Trader was conducted in April in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the involvement of the WCO Secretariat, UK Customs and the member countries of the Southern African Customs Union - SACU (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland)
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07 May 2013
The Georgian Revenue Service has been working hard over the past several years to ensure sustained progress in the area of Customs reform and modernisation, aspiring to become one of the most efficient administrations using business-friendly processes and procedures as well as state-of-the-art revenue collection methods.
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03 May 2013
At the invitation of Mr. Marcio Verdi, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), WCO Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica attended CIAT’s 47th General Assembly on 22 and 24 April 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The central theme of the meeting was : "International taxation aspects that affect management of the Tax Administrations".
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03 May 2013
The World Customs Organization (WCO) hosted the 7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 24-26 April. On this occasion, the WCO introduced the new mobile version of the Interface Public-Members (IPM), its online tool which serves as an interface between frontline Customs officers and the private sector.
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