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31 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Kingdom Border Force (UKBF) have concluded an agreement to enhance the WCO Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS).
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31 March 2021
From 22-25 March, a new virtual training on Stakeholder Engagement with an emphasis on integrity was launched with participants from the General Directorate of Customs of Mali.
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30 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully carried out three series of webinars between late January and late March 2021, to raise awareness about COVID-19 vaccines. The first series of webinars was held from 21 to 28 January in collaboration with Pfizer, the second from 15 to 17 March with Moderna, and the third one on 24 and 25 March with AstraZeneca.
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30 March 2021
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, five (5) Southern African Customs administrations have been making collective efforts in building a pool of experts and developing training materials to be used for more sustainable capacity building in Southern Africa.
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30 March 2021
The first webinar organised by the Regional Customs Laboratory (RCL) of Peru “Extraction and analysis of samples of metalliferous ores concentrates” was held online 25 – 26 March 2021.
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30 March 2021
On the 23 March 2021, the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, was invited to attend the EU Council Customs Cooperation Working Party (CCWP) meeting under the Portuguese Presidency.
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29 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in collaboration with the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for the Asia/Pacific region (RILO A/P) and the Korea Customs Service (KCS), concluded the Global Operation Against Looming Synthetic drugs (codenamed Operation GOALS) on 12 March 2021, after over two months of intense activities.
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26 March 2021
Upon the invitation of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, on 23 March 2021 the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at a Virtual meeting on the Impact of COVID-19 on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Implications for Resilient Recovery.
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26 March 2021
As a part of its Strategic plan and transformation journey (2019-2023) and upon the invitation of Abu Dhabi Customs Administration (ADCA/UAE), the WCO successfully delivered from 23 to 25 March 2021 a virtual technical expert mission to support the ongoing HRM modernization project in designing and implementing a modern and competency-based HRM system within the ADCA.
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25 March 2021
In pursuit of its efforts to implement the 2022 version of the Harmonized System in a timely manner, the East African Community (EAC) held a regional meeting of tariff experts from 15 to 19 March 2021 in Moshi, Tanzania.
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25 March 2021
The WCO Asia/Pacific (AP) Regional Online Experience-Sharing Workshop on Disruptive Technologies was held from 22 to 24 March 2021.
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24 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) virtual workshop on Data Analytics (DA) for manager levels in the West and Central Africa (WCA) region was held from 18th to 19th March 2021, supported by CCF-Korea.
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24 March 2021
From 8-19 March 2021, the WCO successfully conducted a virtual diagnostic mission on People Management and Development leveraging the WCO flagship Executive and Professional Competency-Based HRM Programme (EPCB-HRMP) under the framework of the Trade Facilitation in Middle Income Countries (TFMICs) Programme funded by the Prosperity Fund of the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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23 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with the support of integrity experts from Mauritius and Turkey Customs, has successfully completed an integrity development workshop for the benefit of the State Customs Committee of Uzbekistan.
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22 March 2021
From 8-11 March 2021, the WCO conducted a remote assistance mission on Strategic Planning for the Customs Administration of Colombia (DIAN), organized within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) and under the auspices of the WCO Mercator Programme.
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22 March 2021
The State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan officially welcomed the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) in Uzbekistan on 17 March 2021.
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22 March 2021
The WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme continues its virtual capacity building activities dedicated to strengthen Customs abilities to fight illicit trade of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and related items.
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19 March 2021
From 15 to 17 March 2021, the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs organized its annual coordinators’ meeting via KUDO, gathering more than 50 representatives from 17 A-CIP current partner administrations.
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19 March 2021
The WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme has been delivering virtual trainings and webinars since June 2020, continuing to support WCO members in their fight against illicit trafficking of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and related items also in times when travels and physical meetings have not been allowed.
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18 March 2021
Twenty four Customs officers from Eastern and Central Europe took part in a virtual specialized PITCH (Preventing Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage) training, organized jointly by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 15 to 18 March 2021.
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18 March 2021
On 9th March 2021, the WCO and Global Affairs Canada signed an agreement to inject approximately EUR 2.5m (CAD 3,496,777) to support the addition of 8 WCO Members from the Americas region to the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs.
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18 March 2021
On the 12 of March 2021, the WCO attended a virtual conference organized by the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration of the Republic of Peru (SUNAT) entitled “Public Policies: Progress and Challenges related to gender equality”.
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17 March 2021
From 8-12 March, the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme was holding another virtual workshop on Stakeholder Engagement, with TRA.
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17 March 2021
The World Customs Organization organized, with the support of the ROCB Europe Funding, a national Workshop on Advance Rulings for Customs valuation for the benefit of Turkish Customs.
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16 March 2021
Bringing together an unprecedented number of experts, users and researchers in the field of Origin, the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully held the Second Global Origin Conference virtually from 10 to 12 March 2021. This event was organized with the financial support of the Korean Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF-Korea).
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16 March 2021
On March 3 and 4, 2021, COLIBRI presented to authorities, beneficiaries and partners its geoportal and mobile application completely dedicated to the control and monitoring of General Aviation (GA) in Latin America and the Caribbean and in West and Central Africa.
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15 March 2021
On 15 March 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced the formal commencement of its West Africa Security Project, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. It forms part of a German Government initiative, aimed at facilitating support for partner States with a focus on security sector reform.
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15 March 2021
The 24th Meeting of the Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 1 to 5 March 2021.
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15 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) Trade Facilitation Agreement Working Group (TFAWG) met (virtually) for the 13th time on 8 and 9 March 2021.
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10 March 2021
At the invitation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General, spoke at the high-level segment of the Fourteenth United Nations (UN) Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The Congress was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 9 March 2021.
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09 March 2021
From 15 to 19 January 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Customs Department of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), held a virtual workshop on the implementation and use of the WCO National Customs Enforcement Network (nCEN).
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09 March 2021
The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is of primary importance to every nation, and the transportation of vaccines across borders is becoming the world’s largest and fastest operation ever.
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08 March 2021
At the invitation of the International Intellectual Property Protection Forum (IIPPF), the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, attended an online seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) on 3 March 2021.
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08 March 2021
Today, on 8 March, the World Customs Organization (WCO) is pleased to join the international community in celebrating International Women’s Day 2021, focusing on the United Nations’ theme of “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”, which highlights the importance of women’s role in shaping the future following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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05 March 2021
A follow-up remote technical assistance workshop on Risk Management (RM) for the Customs Administration of Bolivia (AN), organized within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) and under the auspices of the WCO Mercator Programme, took place from 23-26 February 2021.
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04 March 2021
The WCO is continuing its series of regional workshops on the topic of organizational performance measurement. A Virtual Multi-Regional Workshop on this topic was held successfully from 23 to 26 February 2021 for the WCO East and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) Regions, in cooperation with the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme (financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and WCO-ESA Project II whose objectives are “To progress the Trade Facilitation (TF) Agenda within the framework of the WCO Mercator Programme in the East and Southern Africa Region, 2016-2021” (financed by Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs).
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03 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is proud to announce the release of its new online tool, www.wcotradetools.org, which compiles information to support international trade actors in the classification of goods and the determination of the corresponding Customs tariffs and taxes. This new database offers a single point of access to the Harmonized System, preferential Rules of Origin and Valuation, through a completely new, user-centric and ergonomic interface.
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03 March 2021
The WCO organized a virtual training for Palestinian Government officials in the control of illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) which was funded by the External Action Service of the European Union as a part of the EU-LAS Project.
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03 March 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has successfully delivered a Time Release Study (TRS) Workshop for the benefit of the Tajikistan Customs Administration.
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03 March 2021
The 20th session of the WCO Integrity Sub-Committee (ISC), which held under the theme “Evolution of Integrity in Customs and the Need to be Responsive” was conducted in two phases.
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02 March 2021
On 3 March, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community in celebrating the United Nations’ (UN) World Wildlife Day, to draw attention to the essential role that biodiversity plays in sustaining our planet and its people. On this occasion, the WCO reiterates its pledge to protect the world’s fauna and flora, and its continuing support to its partner, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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02 March 2021
In partnership with the Container Control Programme (CCP) operated jointly by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the WCO COPES Programme organized a training course which was delivered online from 22 to 26 February 2021 in Tunisia.
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02 March 2021
Since 2019 the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the European Union (EU) are partners in a Project called “COLIBRI: monitoring and controlling general aviation along the cocaine route”. The Project aims to step up international coordination and efforts with the aim of combatting organized crime and the challenges posed by drug trafficking.
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02 March 2021
The Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme is continuing to deliver virtual capacity building events during the first quarter of 2021, hoping to be able to follow-up with live events starting from the end of the second quarter of the year.
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02 March 2021
With the growing global interest in making available tariff-related information via web-based tools, the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) decided to embark on a project to implement an electronic tariff platform in the country.
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02 March 2021
On 2 March 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) of the Republic of India held an online signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of a WCO Regional Customs Laboratory (RCL) in India.
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01 March 2021
From 22-26 February, the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme organised another virtual training workshop on Stakeholder Engagement, this time in response to needs expressed by the ECC.
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