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30 April 2018
At the invitation of the WCO Council Vice-Chair, Colonel Major Pierre Da, Director General of Côte d'Ivoire Customs, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 23rd Conference of Directors General of Customs of the West and Central Africa region, held in Conakry (Guinea) from 25 to 27 April 2018.
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30 April 2018
From 18 to 19 April 2018 the WCO attended the first Oil and Fuel Theft Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.
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30 April 2018
The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the WCO-COMALEP Private Sector Meeting entitled “Coordinated Border Management: A pending challenge”, as well as the XXXIXth Meeting of Customs National Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, held in Los Cabos, Mexico from 18 to 20 April 2018.
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30 April 2018
Under the patronage of the WCO Reserve Fund and in close collaboration with the Regional Training Center, a World Customs Organization Accreditation Workshop for Expert Trainers (ET) on Rules of Origin was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 23 to 27 April 2018.
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30 April 2018
The 12th meeting of the Technical Experts Group on Air Cargo Security (TEGACS), held from 24 to 25 April 2018 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels, brought together over 60 delegates from Customs administrations, transport authorities, international organizations and industry.
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26 April 2018
On the occasion of the 23rd Conference of Directors General of Customs of the WCO West and Central Africa (WCA) Region, the WCO launched its new Security Project during a ceremony held in Conakry, Guinea on 25 April 2018.
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26 April 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is pleased to join the international community in celebrating World Intellectual Property Day 2018 under the theme “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity,” celebrating the ingenuity, creativity and courage of women around the world who, thanks to the support of a proper IP system, can bring their ideas to life and contribute to stronger economic growth and cultural wealth.
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26 April 2018
The WCO Inama Project aims to strengthen the enforcement capacity of targeted Customs administrations in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the illegal trade in wildlife (fauna and flora) and in particular species listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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26 April 2018
Further to the WCO’s continued commitment to mitigate Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT), a range of Train–the-Trainer and Accreditation Workshops are conducted under the auspices of the WCO Inama project.
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26 April 2018
The WCO is committed to mitigate environmental crime and works continuously to support Member Customs administrations to tackle smuggling, poaching and trafficking of prohibited goods.
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26 April 2018
The WCO supports the Directorate General of Customs (DGD) of Côte d’Ivoire in its efforts to strengthen its tariff classification and Customs valuation control infrastructure, which will enable it to carry out its work effectively and independently.
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25 April 2018
Following WCO work with the Philippines Bureau of Customs (BOC) undertaken in July 2017, the World Bank is exploring bringing several BOC initiatives under a single project.
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24 April 2018
In the framework of the newly signed agreement between the WCO and Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCED) and following the successful WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) gap analysis conducted by the WCO from 19 to 23 March 2018, two experts from the WCO facilitated a national Workshop in the area of Time Release Study (TRS) in Nassau (Bahamas) from 9 to 13 April.
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23 April 2018
After four days of intensive discussions, the 219th/220th Permanent Technical Committee (PTC) concluded its proceedings on 19 April. The meeting of the PTC, the key technical committee dealing with strategic issues concerning procedures and facilitation, gathered 140 delegates from governments, the private sector, international organisations and academia to discuss several topical matters in this area.
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20 April 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB A/P) and Korea Customs Service, organized the "WCO Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on Capacity Building of Customs Laboratories", in Busan, Korea from 17 to 19 April 2018 under the sponsorship of the Customs Cooperation Fund of Korea.
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19 April 2018
At the invitation of Mr. Francisco Gil Leyva, Director General of Mexican Customs, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the XXIst Regional Conference of Customs Directors General for the Americas/Caribbean Region, held in Los Cabos, Mexico, on 16 and 17 April 2018. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Fabian Villarroel Rios of Chilean Customs, Chile being the current Vice-Chair for the Americas/Caribbean Region.
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19 April 2018
With a view to implement an effective PCA function in accordance with the WCO PCA Guidelines and meeting in full the requirements of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the General Authority for Customs for Qatar sought the WCO’s support in conducting a PCA diagnostic.
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19 April 2018
WCO Sub-Regional Train-the-Trainer Workshop on Programme Global Shield held in Manila
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18 April 2018
Under the framework of the WCO ESA II project funded by the Finnish Government, the WCO delivered an e-Learning mission at the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in Kampala on the 5th to 6th April 2018.
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17 April 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Korea Customs Service (KCS) and the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Asia and the Pacific (RILO AP), organized the WCO “Operation CATalyst 2 Training Workshop” in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 10 to 12 April 2018.
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17 April 2018
The Customs – Police Cooperation Handbook, jointly drafted by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and INTERPOL, was developed to further the goal of enhancing cooperation and collaboration between these two agencies.
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17 April 2018
More than 80 experts from Member Customs Administrations, Industry associations, National guarantors and shippers’ councils, other private sector entities, Regional Economic Communities and development partners gathered in Cotonou, Benin from 11 to 13 April 2018 for a regional workshop on transit for the WCO West and Central Africa (WCA) region.
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16 April 2018
The WCO Working Group on E-Commerce (WGEC) met for the 3rd time at the WCO headquarters in Brussels from 9 to 12 April 2018.
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16 April 2018
From 26 March to 4 April 2018, the WCO conducted a Workshop on Coordinated Border Management in the City of Apia, Samoa, hosted by Samoa Customs and supported by Inland Revenue Service.
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13 April 2018
At the invitation of Mr Ruslan Davydov, First Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the WCO Europe Region Heads of Customs Conference, held in Sochi, Russia from 12 to 13 April 2018.
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12 April 2018
Following the invitation from The Bahamas Customs Department (BCD), the WCO successfully conducted a World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) gap analysis with BCD from 19-23 March 2018. The Bahamas is seeking to accede to the WTO, and BCD has a crucial role in preparing the Bahamas to do so. This analysis is one of 26 project activities that the WCO is facilitating for BCD as part of the Trade Sector Support Program.
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11 April 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) provided support to the National Customs Service (Servicio Nacional de Aduanas – SNA) of Costa Rica under the WCO Mercator Program, on 19 – 23 March 2018.
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11 April 2018
Under the framework of the WCO ESA Project II funded by the Finnish Government, the WCO delivered an e-Learning mission at the Kenya Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Mombasa on the 2nd to 4th April 2018.
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10 April 2018
As part of a one-week international exposure training course in Europe, under the leadership of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) and in coordination with India’s National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN), five delegations of trainees from the Indian Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) visited WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium during February and March 2018.
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10 April 2018
WCO organized a regional workshop on Digital Customs and E-Commerce for East and Southern Africa (ESA), with the support of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) and China Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF/China) from 26 to 29 March 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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10 April 2018
In the framework of the WCO-WACAM Project financed by Sweden, the World Customs Organization provided tailor-made support to Niger Customs in the field of competency-based human resources management.
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09 April 2018
As a part of its capacity-building delivery activity, WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop from 19 to 29 March 2018 for 20 senior managers in Banjul, The Gambia.
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06 April 2018
The 4th Executive Programme in Customs & Business Administration (EPCBA) was held from 13th February to 30th March 2018 at Seoul National University, Korea.
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