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27 February 2015
Serbia hosts a workshop on the modernization of its customs laboratory
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27 February 2015
At the invitation of the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Mr. John Danilovich, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated at the Customs and Trade Facilitation Symposium, an event organized by the ICC and the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), which took place in Miami, Florida, from 22 to 24 February. Mr. Mikuriya delivered a keynote speech on the latest WCO activities including assisting its Members and a wider stakeholder community to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation in collaboration with the ICC and other business partners.
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27 February 2015
As part of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Comparative Study on Preferential Rules of Origin, the WCO Secretariat has conducted a study on the use of “Change of Tariff Classification (CTC)-based rules” in Product Specific Rules (PSRs) of existing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
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27 February 2015
Latest edition of WCO News now available
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27 February 2015
Next WCO/Japan Regional Customs Laboratories Programme starts in October 2015
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25 February 2015
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and the Regional Office for Capacity Building for East and Southern Africa (ROCB ESA), organized a WCO Regional Workshop on Transit in Kampala, Uganda, from 20 to 22 February 2015.
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25 February 2015
Prior to the 6th Capacity Building Committee and the 14th Integrity Sub-Committee, representatives from the Regional Offices for Capacity Building (ROCBs), the Regional Training Centres (RTCs) and the Vice Chairs’ offices met on 19 and 20 February 2015 in Brussels for the 10th Global Meeting of the Heads of ROCBs, RTCs and Vice Chairs’ Offices.
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24 February 2015
At the invitation of the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Mr. John Danilovich, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated at the Customs and Trade Facilitation Symposium, an event organized by the ICC and the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), which took place in Miami, Florida, from 22 to 24 February. Mr. Mikuriya delivered a keynote speech on the latest WCO activities including assisting its Members and a wider stakeholder community to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation in collaboration with the ICC and other business partners.
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23 February 2015
As part of strengthening its broader Customs Capacity Building agenda, the WCO in partnership with the Seychelles Revenue Commission (SRC) organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop from 2 until 13 February 2015.
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23 February 2015
The new facilities, spread out over an area of more than 2,000 square meters, were inaugurated on 18 February 2015 by the President of the Dominican Republic, Excmo.
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20 February 2015
From the 19th to the 23rd of November 2014, the WCO organized the Accreditation Workshop for Technical Operational Advisers on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy (A/P Region) in Kashiwa, Japan, under the financial support of the Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan.
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20 February 2015
Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Amman, Jordan, on 18 February 2015 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Agadir Technical Unit (ATU) Executive President, Mr. El Aid Mahsoussi, in the presence of the Directors General of Customs of the four ATU Member countries, namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.
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19 February 2015
On 17 February 2015, a delegation from the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council), led by Secretary General Ramil Hasanov, visited WCO Headquarters to discuss future cooperation between the two Organizations. The Turkic Council consists of four Member States - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey - which are also WCO Members.
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19 February 2015
WCO Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on Intelligence Management
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18 February 2015
An ECOWAS Commission delegation, headed by Mr. Ahmed Hamid in his capacity as ECOWAS Commissioner for Trade, Customs and Free Movement, visited WCO Headquarters in Brussels on 16 and 17 February 2015.
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18 February 2015
In Blantyre, Malawi, the Steering Committee for ‘Customs Capacity Building in the ESA Region’ met from 9-11 February 2015.
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18 February 2015
As part of a continuous effort to enhance donor coordination and cooperation and strengthen stakeholders networking, the 8th WCO - America’s and Caribbean (AMS/CB) regional entities strategic meeting and the 6th regional donor meeting for the Americas and Caribbean took place at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington D.C., from 2-4 February 2015.
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18 February 2015
The Embassy of the Republic of Niger in Brussels has deposited with the World Customs Organization (WCO) Niger’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC), making Niger the 99th Contracting Party to this Convention.
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16 February 2015
The WCO, responding to a request for capacity building in the area of effective revenue assurance, conducted a Sub-Regional Workshop on PCA for Russian Speaking Customs in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2 to 6 February 2015. The workshop was supported by the Customs Co-operation Fund (CCF)/Japan.
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12 February 2015
WCO-WTO cooperation at the Working Group on WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA)
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11 February 2015
The WCO INAMA Project focuses on strengthening the enforcement capacity of targeted Customs administrations in Sub-Saharan Africa, while focusing on the illegal trade in wildlife (fauna and flora) and in particular endangered species as defined by CITES.
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11 February 2015
A ground-breaking meeting bringing leading private sector companies moving goods across the globe together with wildlife trade experts has initiated a process to strengthen partnerships to eliminate the risk of facilitating wildlife trafficking.
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09 February 2015
Viet Nam joins the UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme
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09 February 2015
The WCO contributed as facilitator to an AEO Workshop for the ASEAN Customs Authorities, organized by ASEAN Regional Integration Support from the EU (ARISE) and hosted by the Royal Malaysian Customs Administration from 27 to 29 January 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Workshop was attended by 22 middle ranking participants from 9 ASEAN Members states and 7 observers including the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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09 February 2015
A regional Workshop on the technical model of cross border operations for better connectivity among Arab countries was held in Amman, Jordan during the period 26-27 January 2015 with the participation of the UNDP, the WCO, the Arab League, the Islamic Development Bank and representatives from Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan to discuss the way to improve the performance of cross-border operations in the four countries.
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09 February 2015
The WCO in cooperation with Lebanese Customs organized a Risk Management/Assessment Workshop in Beirut, Lebanon from 19 to 22 January 2015 with the participation of 20 customs officers from Headquarters and field-level offices.
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06 February 2015
Renewed commitment of Heads of Customs Administrations of the Asia/Pacific Region to WCO Strategies and Integrity Culture
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05 February 2015
The pre-shipment inspection contract signed in 2005 between the DRC Government and the private company BIVAC expires on 14 February 2015.
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05 February 2015
WCO and UNODC conducted the first Theoretical Training seminar on risk profiling in containerized trade in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 2 to 6 February 2015, in the framework of the UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme.
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04 February 2015
The 13th Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Conference of Directors General of Customs of the West and Central Africa (WCA) Region was held at Roméo Golf, Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from 21 to 23 January 2015.
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04 February 2015
In January 2015 a WCO Capacity Building support mission was undertaken to Timor-Leste. The mission was the latest in a series of inputs as part of the Project for “Customs Capacity Building for WCO Members 2012-15” which is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).
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03 February 2015
At the invitation of the Director General of Bahrain Customs, Mr. Mohamed Al Khalifa, in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) region, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in the MENA regional meeting, held in Cairo on 2 February 2015 to discuss the follow-up to the Policy Commission's deliberations in December 2014.
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02 February 2015
At the invitation of Mr. Thomas Schoeneck, President of the German Centre for Education and Science of the Federal Revenue Administration, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended a ceremony to honour the WCO's contribution to two German canine training centres within WCO Regional Training Centres network.
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02 February 2015
At the invitation of Mr. Julian Würtenberger, Director General of German Customs Administration, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Nuremberg for bilateral meetings during which a wide range of topics of mutual interest were discussed.
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