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30 October 2020
The WCO Working Group on Performance Measurement (WGPM) concluded the virtual session of its 2nd Meeting on 23 October 2020, following a document-based consultation that had provided robust foundations for future decision-making.
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30 October 2020
In the framework of the WCO-COPES Programme, the WCO launched the CECAC Project (Customs Enforcement Curriculum for Assistant Collectors) a project aimed at assisting Pakistan Customs in building its capacity to enhance security and combat serious crime, particularly by preparing Pakistan’s future senior officers to meet the challenges ahead.
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30 October 2020
From 19-23 October, a new virtual training on Stakeholder Engagement with an emphasis on Integrity was launched with participants from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
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30 October 2020
On 21 October 2020, the WCO and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) of the Republic of The Philippines had the pleasure of holding an Executive-Level Kick-Off meeting to mark their forward collaboration of the WCO’s Mercator Programme as a multi-year and strategic approach to implementing the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
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29 October 2020
In their capacity as the principal regulatory border agency, Customs administrations around the world are mandated to monitor and control cross-border movements of environmentally sensitive commodities (ESCs), and ensure compliance with trade-related provisions stipulated by Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). These include the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention), and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol).
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29 October 2020
The WCO has published the 93th edition of WCO News, the Organization’s flagship magazine aimed at the Customs community, which provides a selection of informative articles that touch the international Customs and trade landscape.
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29 October 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic poses various and difficult challenges for the private and public sectors across the globe.
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28 October 2020
The WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme continues Capacity building activities to be delivered in an online setting until travel restrictions will be released and physical events will be possible again.
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28 October 2020
On 20-21 October 2020, the 14th annual World Customs Organization (WCO) - International Air Transportation Agency (IATA) – International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Advance Passenger Information (API) / Passenger Name Record (PNR) Contact Committee took place virtually due to ongoing concerns with the covid-19 global pandemic.
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28 October 2020
The 18th Meeting of the Heads of Asia/Pacific WCO Regional Training Centers (RTCs) was held virtually on 15 October 2020 hosted by the Asia/Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB A/P).
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27 October 2020
The WCO Deputy Secretary General joined representatives from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) for a Formal Steering Committee Meeting of the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme on 21 October 2020 via video conference to discuss the Programme’s progress and strategy, particularly in light of adaptations made for COVID-19.
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23 October 2020
From 13 to 16 October 2020, the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully held the first Global Railway Workshop virtually via the KUDO platform with the support of CCF Korea.
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23 October 2020
The Advanced Course on Tax and Customs Administration Management was successfully launched on 19th of October 2020 with the participation of 40 top and middle management officials from Customs and Tax Administrations from 10 countries in the Americas region.
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22 October 2020
With the highest attendance in its history, the WCO Harmonized System Committee (HSC) held its 66th Session (HSC/66) from 28 September to 16 October 2020.
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21 October 2020
At the request of the National Directorate of Tax and Customs of Colombia (DIAN) and with the support from SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme, the WCO LMD programme delivered successfully the first ever virtual LMD for executives.
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20 October 2020
The Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme continues to deliver its capacity building activities for WCO members in a virtual setting until travels and in-person meetings will be allowed again.
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20 October 2020
On 19 October 2020, the Secretary General of the WCO Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, in his capacity as the depositary of the Convention, received the original of the Instrument of accession of Maldives to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention) from His Excellency Mr. Hassan Sobir, the Ambassador of Maldives to the Kingdom of Belgium, Head of the Mission of Maldives to the European Union.
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19 October 2020
The WCO-Japan Career Development Programme for 2020-2021 commenced on Monday 12 October 2020.
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16 October 2020
The WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project organized a virtual sub-regional Programme Global Shield (PGS) Follow-up Workshop for East Africa on 13 October 2020 attended by representatives from Customs and other border agencies as well as experts and observers from the WCO, JICA, Interpol, RILO ESA and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the United States.
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16 October 2020
In an effort to maintain a close cooperation and unity amongst RILOs, on the 8th of October 2020 the Global RILO Network met virtually for its second informal meeting.
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16 October 2020
Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the World Customs Organizations (WCO) organized a virtual webinar Workshop for the Argentina Customs Administration.
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15 October 2020
On the 13 of October 2020, the WCO attended a webinar organized by the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DGCE), Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia entitled “How to strengthen your administration based on Gender Equality and Diversity”.
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15 October 2020
The Eighth Virtual Meeting of the Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held in two Phases
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14 October 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a virtual commemorative opening to mark the 50th Session of the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation (TCCV) on 12 October 2020.
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14 October 2020
At the invitation of the Director General of Madagascar Customs, Mr. Zafivanona Ernest Lainkana, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, participated as a guest speaker during the opening ceremony of a virtual roundtable between Madagascar Customs and its technical and financial partners held on 12 October 2020. The Minister of Economy and Finance of Madagascar, Mr. Richard Randriamandrato, officially opened the three-day roundtable.
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14 October 2020
At the invitation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organization (WCO) participated in the “First resumed Eleventh session of the Implementation Review Group and Eleventh session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Prevention of Corruption”
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09 October 2020
In cooperation with Argentinean Customs, Spanish Customs (Agencia Tributaria) prevented illicit import of fossils of high paleontological value. This Operation, codenamed Corsair, was successfully carried out despite the restrictions on working modalities imposed by governments following the COVID-19 pandemic. Using intelligence made available through the World Customs Organization's (WCO) channel, surveillance investigators of Spanish Customs were able to identify a high-risk container, which was duly inspected by Customs officers in May 2020 in the seaport of Valencia.
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09 October 2020
From 28 September to 1 October 2020, the WCO successfully held a Virtual Regional Workshop on Organizational Performance Measurement for the WCO Europe Region.
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09 October 2020
At the invitation of the Organization of American States (OAS), the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, participated in the “Customs and Border Security, lessons learned and good practices in biosecurity during the pandemic” Webinar. The Webinar’s aim was to provide information on how Customs administrations have helped mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and on measures implemented to protect Customs officers and international traders.
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08 October 2020
As Turkmenistan is strongly considering its accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention), the World Customs Organization (WCO) delivered a high-level Workshop on the process and benefits of the accession to this important Convention for the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan and all relevant ministries and agencies.
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08 October 2020
The 23rd/24th Meetings of the SAFE Working Group (SWG) were held from 14 August to 02 October 2020, in two phases: a document-based consultation phase on the WCO’s CLiKC! Platform, and three virtual Meeting sessions on the KUDO platform.
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06 October 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and its Members have successfully run a global emergency operation called “STOP” against illegal trafficking linked to COVID-19, the report on which was presented at an online conference today, 6 October 2020. Operation STOP is the WCO’s immediate and urgent response, working with 99 Member administrations and its network of Regional Intelligence Liaison Offices (RILOs), to the resurgence in illegal trafficking of medicines and medical supplies, including those linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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06 October 2020
On 2 October 2020, the Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Brussels has deposited with the World Customs Organization (WCO) the country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC), making Myanmar the 123th Contracting Party to this Convention.
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06 October 2020
The Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme carries on with its capacity building activities through an online delivery format during the last quarter of 2020, hoping that physical trainings will be possible again next year.
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06 October 2020
WCO Members of the Virtual Working Group (VWG) on Gender Equality & Diversity gathered through an online meeting on the 22nd of September to discuss the “COVID 19 and Gender Equality, the gendered impacts of the current crisis and how it can be relevant for Customs administrations”.
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06 October 2020
The WCO and its partners launched the Project TENTACLE capacity building efforts during the week of the 14th of September 2020, by hosting the Pan-African Operation TENTACLE Anti-money Laundering and Counter-terrorism Financing Workshop on the WCO Kudo virtual training platform.
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05 October 2020
From 07 to 18 September 2020, the WCO WCA region, through its two Regional Liaison Offices in charge of Intelligence (RILO), located respectively in Dakar, Senegal and Douala, Cameroon, hosted a webinar on intelligence, Customs Enforcement Network (CEN) and its applications.
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05 October 2020
In the context of assistance provided to Niger to implement the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a workshop aimed at building capacity in the areas of advance rulings (AR) and the Harmonized System (HS) was held in Niamey, Niger, from 31 August to 25 September 2020.
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05 October 2020
As part of the scoping phase of the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme, the Customs of Niger organized on 22-23 September 2020, in Niamey, an innovative seminar which brought together more than 40 participants, internal contributors (directors, heads of departments, Customs officers) and external (private sector representatives, economic operators, institutional partners).
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01 October 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) concluded additional agreements in the month of September, with the U.S. Department of State, to expand its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-terrorism Financing (AML-CTF), Customs Operational Practices for Enforcement and Seizures (COPES) and Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programmes.
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01 October 2020
The WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) for the Asia/Pacific region and Member Customs administrations of the region conducted Operation ICE BREAK II, a joint operation targeting illicit drugs and drug precursors trafficking, with a focus on methamphetamines, over a five-week period from 15 June to 19 July 2020.
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