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22 December 2015
Implementation of the AEO programme in Paraguay is a priority as it is aligned with their Institutional Strategic Plan for the period 2014 - 2018.
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22 December 2015
Upon request of Lebanese Customs, a WCO support mission was conducted from 14 to 18 December 2015 in Beirut to help the administration draft its Strategic Plan taking due account of the WCO most essential instruments, as well as modern strategic planning methods.
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22 December 2015
Two National Seminars on the Harmonized System (HS), organized jointly by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), with the support of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), were held in Dar es Salaam, from 10 to 17 December 2015.
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22 December 2015
As part of its efforts to create a regional pool of Human Resource Management (HRM) experts in West and Central Africa, the WCO – WACAM project, financed by Sweden, conducted national support missions benefitting the Customs Administrations of Senegal and Gabon from the 22nd to the 28th of November 2015.
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22 December 2015
Under the auspices of the WCO INAMA project (funded by the CITES Secretariat, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GiZ), Sweden and the US Department of State) an Inter-Agency Cooperation and Coordination on enforcement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Workshop was held in Brussels from 14 to 16 December 2015. This particular workshop was funded by GiZ.
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22 December 2015
Following an invitation from the Swedish Tax Agency (STA) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the WCO conducted a mission to Nairobi from 30 November to 4 December.
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21 December 2015
The first WCO accredited Customs Experts refresher workshop and the third workshop on the accreditation of Mercator Programme Advisors (MPAs) was held in Shanghai, China, from 7 to 10 December 2015.
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21 December 2015
At the invitation of the Federal Customs Authority UAE, the WCO conducted a workshop on the preparation of the implementation of the WCO SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS) and an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme in Dubai, from 13 to 15 December 2015.
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18 December 2015
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Korea Customs Service and the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) for Asia and the Pacific, concluded Operation CATalyst on 30 November 2015.
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18 December 2015
Following an invitation from the Ministry of Trade and Sudan Customs, a joint mission of the WCO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a scoping mission to Khartoum from 1 to 3 December to update the country’s national trade facilitation plan that UNCTAD had completed in 2013 as well as to adopt a comprehensive trade-related technical assistance programme to help Sudan to implement trade facilitation reforms.
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17 December 2015
UNODC and WCO launched the Air Cargo segment of the Container Control Programme (CCP) at Karachi Jinnah International Airport in Pakistan with a Theoretical Training of the Karachi Air Cargo Control Unit from 16 – 27 November 2015.
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17 December 2015
As a side event at the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 15 to 18 December 2015, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) jointly organized a session on Trade Facilitation – Borders Divide, Customs Connects, which took place on Wednesday 16 December at KRA premises.
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17 December 2015
A first overview of the main features of the origin provisions contained in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been published as part of the Comparative study on Preferential Rules of Origin.
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16 December 2015
WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the WTO's 10th Ministerial Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15 to 18 December 2015.
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16 December 2015
Following a request by the Samoa Customs Service, Ministry for Revenue (MfR), the World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a four-day national support mission on the implementation of the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC). The implementation of the RKC forms an essential part of the Samoa Customs modernization program.
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15 December 2015
At the invitation of Mr. Victor Hugo Saint-Louis, Director General of Haiti Customs, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 10 and 11 December 2015. He attended the closing ceremony of a Leadership and Management Development course,
co-organized by the WCO and Canada.
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15 December 2015
At the invitation of Oman Customs, the WCO, with the support of the Korean WCO Customs Cooperation Fund, conducted a workshop on the preparation of the implementation of the SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS) and an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme in Oman from 7 to 10 December 2015.
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15 December 2015
Following an invitation from the Ministry of Trade and Sudan Customs, a joint mission of the WCO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a scoping mission to Khartoum from 1 to 3 December to update the country’s national trade facilitation plan that UNCTAD had completed in 2013 as well as to adopt a comprehensive trade-related technical assistance programme to help Sudan to implement trade facilitation reforms.
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14 December 2015
Within the framework of the Operation Cocair 5 that took place from 5 to 13 December 2015, an exceptional seizure was made by Benin Customs. With the support of the Joint Airport Interdiction Task Force (JAITF) established by the UNODC-WCO-INTERPOL Project AIRCOP, Benin Customs officers intercepted 265 kg of cocaine that was smuggled from Brazil via Morocco and Benin by air with the final destination in Nigeria.
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14 December 2015
As part of its Capacity Building programme, the WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) workshop from 23 November until 4 December 2015.
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11 December 2015
A WCO National Workshop on Rules of Origin was held from 7 to 9 December 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan. This Workshop, supported by the Korea Customs Co-operation Fund (CCF/Korea) welcomed 47 participants.
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11 December 2015
At the request of the Ecole des Douanes belges [Belgian Customs School], and as part of their nine months of training in Belgium, a group of 25 trainees from various French-speaking African countries visited WCO Headquarters on 2 and 3 December 2015.
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10 December 2015
The WCO Policy Commission has issued the Punta Cana Resolution, which concerns the security role of Customs, particularly in light of the recent spate of terror attacks in various regions around the world.
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10 December 2015
At the invitation of the UNESCO Office in Beirut, the World Customs Organization (WCO) supported the delivery of two training sessions from 30 November to 4 December 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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09 December 2015
A National Workshop on the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC) was held in, Baku, Azerbaijan, with the support of the German Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF-Germany).
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09 December 2015
The WCO, in cooperation with the Cuban Customs conducted a national workshop with the support of the Korean Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) on enhancing the implementation of the SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS) and an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme in Havana, Cuba from 1 to 3 December 2015.
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08 December 2015
The World Customs Organization (WCO), at the conclusion of its Policy Commission meeting in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on 12 December 2015, issued a Communication regarding the implementation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
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08 December 2015
The second WCO COPES Regional Seminar was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 24 to 26 November 2015.
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08 December 2015
A national workshop on Post Clearance Audit (PCA) was organized by the WCO Secretariat and the ROCB A/P from 16 to 20 November 2015 in Apia, Samoa, under the sponsorship of Customs Cooperation Funds (CCF) of Japan.
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08 December 2015
In the framework of the West African Customs Administrations Modernization (WACAM) project, funded by Sweden, a regional support mission in the field of Strategic Management was carried out for Anglophone West African countries from 9 – 13 November 2015 in Monrovia, Liberia.
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08 December 2015
In the framework of the West African Customs Administrations Modernization (WACAM) project, funded by Sweden, a regional workshop on Strategic Management was carried out from 23 to 27 November 2015 in Libreville, Gabon. The workshop benefitted 22 participants from 12 countries.
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08 December 2015
The second WCO COPES Regional Seminar was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 24 to 26 November 2015.
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07 December 2015
The WCO has released the 2014 Illicit Trade Report, which contains five sections covering Drugs; Environment; IPR, Health and Safety; Revenue; and Security.
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04 December 2015
The WCO Harmonized System Committee (HSC) held its 56th Session from 16 to 25 September 2015 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels. The decisions taken by the HSC during this Session have now been published on our Website.
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04 December 2015
At the invitation of Bhutan Customs, the WCO with the support from the Asian Development Bank and the Korean WCO Customs Cooperation Fund conducted a ‘National Workshop on Coordinated Border Management, Single Window and Data Model’ from 23 to 26 November 2015 in Paro, Bhutan.
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03 December 2015
From 23 to 27 November 2015, a workshop took place in Accra, Ghana for English-speaking Customs administrations in the WCO’s West and Central Africa and Southern and Eastern Africa Regions.
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03 December 2015
At the invitation of Mr. George Blankson, Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya spoke about Ghana Customs' progress and its way forward supported by technology, such as the Single Window, at the National Single Window Conference held in Accra, Ghana on 1 and 2 December 2015.
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03 December 2015
Indonesia, which has implemented a national AEO programme since March this year, is currently planning to enlarge the scope of persons/entities eligible to join the programme beyond the current circle of exporters. In this context, upon invitation of the Indonesian Customs & Excise administration, the WCO continued its support and conducted a workshop in Jakarta on 25-26 November 2015.
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02 December 2015
The WCO, in cooperation with Qatar Customs, organized a Risk-based Selectivity Workshop in Doha, Qatar from 23 to 26 November 2015. The workshop was attended by 23 Customs officers from Headquarters and field-level offices.
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01 December 2015
The WCO Regional Workshop on Strategic Initiatives for Trade Facilitation and the Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) – Mercator Programme – for the WCO West and Central Africa (WCA) Region was held from 17 to 19 November 2015 in Lomé, Togo.
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01 December 2015
The WCO, in cooperation with the Angola Revenue Authority (AGT), provided national support in form of a workshop on the preparation and implementation of the SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS) and an envisaged Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme in Angola from 23 to 25 November 2015.
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