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31 January 2020
On 30 January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the current outbreak of 2019-nCoV constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The declaration followed a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee regarding the 2019-nCoV outbreak in the People’s Republic of China, with exportations to other countries. It is considered that the 2019-nCoV outbreak has met the conditions for a WHO Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
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31 January 2020
The WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya met with the Chargé d’affaires of Canada to Belgium and the European Union, His Excellency Ambassador Christopher Cooter at the WCO Headquarters on 31 January 2020 in the framework of a grant agreement signed by the Global Affairs Canada (GAC) for the funding of activities under the WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme.
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31 January 2020
On 27 January, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner General, Doris Akol, announced the launch in Uganda of the Global Travel Assessment System (GTAS), an advance passenger data risk assessment system that enables advance passenger information (API) and passenger name record (PNR) data to be collected and analysed electronically.
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31 January 2020
The WCO, in cooperation with Saudi Customs and with the financial support of the WCO CCF Reserves, organized a regional workshop on cross-border E-Commerce for MENA from 13 to 16 January 2020 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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31 January 2020
The WCO organized a National Workshop on Risk Management in Alexandria, Egypt from 19 to 23 January 2020 with the financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund “Euro customs”.
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29 January 2020
The WCO has published the amendments to the Harmonized System (HS) Nomenclature accepted by all 158 Contracting Parties to the HS Convention.
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29 January 2020
The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) has opened its nomination for the 13 months Scholarship Programme on Public Finance.
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29 January 2020
The 80th WCO Fellowship Programme, intended for French-speakers, was launched in Brussels on Monday 27 January 2020.
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29 January 2020
The World Customs Organization organized, with the support of the Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan, and in collaboration with Thai Customs and the Regional Office for Capacity Building of the Asia Pacific Region, a sub-regional Train-theTrainer Workshop on Customs Valuation for the benefit of ASEAN Members.
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28 January 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized, with the support of the Customs Cooperation Fund of Eurocustoms, a national workshop to assist Kyrgyzstan Customs in the development of an Advance Rulings system for Customs valuation.
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28 January 2020
The WCO successfully delivered a national workshop on Post Clearance Audit (PCA) from 18 to 22 November 2019, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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24 January 2020
International Customs Day (ICD), which is officially marked on 26 January every year, was celebrated by the WCO Secretariat on 24 January 2020 at the Organization’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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24 January 2020
Once again, the Customs community comes together, united in celebrating International Customs Day, which officially falls on 26 January of each year. This special day enables WCO Members, the WCO Secretariat and Customs’ worldwide partners to dedicate themselves to taking forward a particular theme. Thus, throughout 2020, under the slogan “Customs fostering Sustainability for People, Prosperity and the Planet,” the Customs community will be focusing on the contribution of Customs towards a sustainable future where social, economic, health and environmental needs are at the heart of its actions.
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24 January 2020
African swine fever (ASF) is currently having a detrimental impact at different levels of society in several countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Europe. This disease is not known to be a danger to human health; however, it poses a major threat to pig health and welfare and, therefore, to pig production systems. Considering that pigs have become a main source of animal protein among a growing human population, ASF not only impacts the livelihoods of small and large-scale pig producers, but also threatens food security worldwide.
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24 January 2020
At the invitation of the World Economic Forum (WEF), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in the Annual Meeting 2020 held from 20 to 23 January 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, where he met with global leaders, explained the important role played by Customs and contributed to various sessions.
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20 January 2020
The WCO Secretariat organized the first WCO Workshop focusing on modernization and standardization of Customs Laboratory, which was held at the WCO Headquarter in Brussels on 15-16 January 2020 during the 35th Session of the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC), the only global body which brings together experts in the field of Customs laboratories and technical areas.
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16 January 2020
On 13 January 2020, the Pau Summit of the G5 Sahel member countries’ Heads of State and the French president Macron took place in the south of France.
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14 January 2020
At the invitation of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended a meeting of the EU Working Party on Customs Union (Customs Union Group - CUG), held on 10 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium to present the WCO’s outlook for 2020.
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14 January 2020
The Seventh Meeting of the Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held from 9 to -13 December 2019 at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels, with the attendance of 42 delegates from 19 Member Customs administrations and 7 external stakeholders.
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14 January 2020
As part of the continuous commitment of the World Customs Organization (WCO) to mitigate Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT), a diagnostic mission and an implementation mission were carried out in Nigeria in November and December 2019 respectively, under the auspices of the WCO INAMA Project.
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08 January 2020
HS 2022, which is the seventh edition of the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature used for the uniform classification of goods traded internationally all over the world, has been accepted by the all Contracting Parties to the Harmonized System Convention.
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07 January 2020
A National Workshop on the Harmonized System and Advance Rulings on Classification was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 16 to 20 December 2019.
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