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30 September 2021
The 68th Session of the Harmonized System Committee has concluded on a high note.
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30 September 2021
In order to cater for the needs of its French-speaking Partner States and users, the East African Community held a meeting of tariff experts to transpose the HS 2022 edition of its Common External Tariff (CET) into the French language.
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29 September 2021
On 28 September 2021, WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa virtually attended the celebrations commemorating the 75th Indonesia Customs and Excise Day.
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29 September 2021
The illicit and global trade of small arms, light weapons and military equipment has been an increasing cause of instability, violence and death across the world.
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27 September 2021
Developed as part of the Customs Operational Practices for Enforcement and Seizures (COPES) Programme, the World Customs Organization’s CECAC (Customs Enforcement Curriculum for Assistant Collectors) Project is aimed at helping Pakistan Customs to improve the level of training of its future senior managers on combating serious crime and on security, to prepare them to address the challenges they will have to face when they first take up their positions.
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24 September 2021
On 24 September 2021, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, together with Ms. Sabine Henzler, European Commission Director, Directorate-General for the Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) of the European Commission, inaugurated an online event on “Women in Customs” hosted by DG TAXUD.
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24 September 2021
On 22 and 23 September 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO) pursued its regional consultation cycle on the next Strategic Plan with the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region.
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24 September 2021
From 26 August to 10 September 2021, the East African Community (EAC) delivered a series of missions for its Partner States’ Customs administrations to strengthen the work towards establishing advance ruling systems across the Community.
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23 September 2021
As part of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP)’s activities in Serbia and under the auspices of the WCO Mercator Programme, a Strategic Planning and KPI development remote workshop was delivered to the Customs Administration of the Republic of Serbia (CAS) from 10 to 20 September 2021.
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22 September 2021
The 26th Meeting of the Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 13 to 16 September 2021.
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17 September 2021
The WCO-Japan Career Development Programme (CDP) for 2021-2022commenced on Thursday 16 September 2021.
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17 September 2021
On 3 September 2021, the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) held an inauguration ceremony to announce the official launch of a national electronic tariff platform, implemented within the framework of the EU-WCO Programme for the Harmonized System in Africa (HS-Africa Programme).
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17 September 2021
On 13 and 14 September 2021, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) hosted online the 8th Annual Meeting of the Partnership for International Organisations. The event brought together 23 Leaders of International Organizations (IOs), including the WCO, represented by its Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, as well as government, academia and civil society representatives to discuss the theme of “Facing Global Crises for Better International Rulemaking” in view of helping governments strengthen, share and improve the international rules that frame our economies, societies and environment.
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17 September 2021
At the invitation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the WCO participated in the Resumed Twelfth Session of the Implementation Review Group, the Fifteenth Meeting of The Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Asset Recovery and the Tenth open-ended Intergovernmental expert meeting to enhance international cooperation under the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
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17 September 2021
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, WCO organized a high-level official launching ceremony of the Master trainer Programme (MTP) on Rules of origin (RoO).
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16 September 2021
On 13 and 14 September, the WCO launched its cycle of consultations with Members on the next Strategic Plan, starting with the West and Central Africa (WCA) Region. This new round of consultations is a direct follow-up to the work initiated in 2020 on the Environmental Scan, which was endorsed by the Policy Commission and Council in June 2021.
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16 September 2021
On 16 September, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community in celebrating the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer- also known as World Ozone Day – under the theme “Montreal Protocol – keeping us, our food and vaccines cool”. World Ozone Day commemorates the anniversary of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, and reaffirms the importance of the international instruments that support this effort.
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15 September 2021
The SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), in collaboration with the Vice-Presidency for the WCO Americas and Caribbean Region, organised a Regional Virtual Forum on Gender Equality and Diversity from 7 to 9 September 2021.
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15 September 2021
The new version of the Harmonized System Nomenclature will enter into force on 1 January 2022, but is already available for free on WCO’s database platform: www.wcotradetools.org.
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15 September 2021
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, the WCO organized a high-level official launching ceremony of the Pacific Islands Master trainer Programme on HS Classification and Customs Valuation.
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15 September 2021
From 6 to 10 September 2021, Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA) held a regional meeting to examine a draft regulation on advance rulings and to discuss the seventh edition of the Harmonized System (HS) entering into force on 1 January 2022.
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10 September 2021
The UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme Women’s Network launched its professional development training course for women Customs officers by organizing its first edition online from 2 to 27 August 2021, in partnership with the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.
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08 September 2021
On 8 September 2021, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, gave a special online lecture to Customs officers who benefited from a scholarship under the Japan-WCO Scholarship Programme. These scholars are either following a Master’s Degree Programme in Public Finance at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) or in Strategic Management and Intellectual Property Rights at the Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU).
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08 September 2021
The SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) team has the pleasure to announce the publication of the Gender Equality Organizational Assessment Tool (GEOAT) in Spanish.
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06 September 2021
From 26 to 29 July 2021, as part of its ongoing support to Members, the WCO Secretariat conducted a virtual fact-finding Workshop on Risk Management for Malagasy Customs.
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03 September 2021
From 23 to 31 August 2021, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) provided technical assistance to the National Board of Revenue of Bangladesh (NBR) on Time Release Study (TRS).
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01 September 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and German Customs recently hosted a meeting with participating WCO Member Customs administrations to discuss the outcomes of the first phase of the West Africa Security Project. The hybrid meeting was chaired by Mr. Olo Sib Pale, the Customs Attaché from Côte d'Ivoire at the WCO, and was hosted at the WCO Headquarters
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