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30 June 2022
On 28 June 2022, at the invitation of the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in charge of the Coordination of the Fight against Fraud, Mr. Van Peteghem, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, took part in the graduation ceremony of the 50th session of the Belgian Customs School. The ceremony marked the end of 10 months of theoretical and practical training in core Customs matters provided by the Belgian Customs School and complemented by the WCO.
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30 June 2022
Law enforcement agencies in Latin America will be able to benefit from a new mapping tool for strengthening general aviation surveillance.
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30 June 2022
The WCO organized the “Green Customs Global Conference” on 27 and 28 June 2022 to raise the awareness of Customs role in protecting environment and hear the expectations for Customs from a range of stakeholders.
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29 June 2022
The WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme and the WCO Customs and Operational Practices for Enforcement and Seizures (COPES) Programme held a training course in Dakar, Senegal, from 20 to 24 June 2022. This first in-person training session for the COPES-STCE Project was delivered with the support of the United States Department of State (the donor) and Senegal Customs.
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29 June 2022
Brussels, June xx, 2022 – Early June 2022, representatives of shipping companies and Customs authorities from across the globe came together to discuss ways to step up the fight against drug trafficking.
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29 June 2022
A National Workshop on the use of the Harmonized System (HS) for the classification of goods and best practices for the HS Infrastructure was held in Chisinau, Moldova, from 20 to 24 June 2022.
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29 June 2022
On 24 June 2022 the WCO Council endorsed the revised versions of the Framework of Standards on Cross-Border E-Commerce (E-Commerce FoS) and the Technical Specifications to the FoS resulting from the first periodic review of the Framework and the tools that support its implementation and form part of the WCO E-Commerce Package.
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28 June 2022
From 16 to 18 May 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a National Workshop on Combatting Counterfeiting and Piracy in Cambodia.
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28 June 2022
During the week of June 20, the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme conducted two separate workshops with the Honduras Customs Administration & the National Customs Service of Ecuador on the topic of consultation mechanisms with the private sector.
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27 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized an online Regional Workshop on Free Zones for the East and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions from 15 to 17 June 2022, in close cooperation with the WCO ESA and WCA Regional Offices for Capacity Building (ROCB/ESA and ROCB/WCA). 82 participants from 23 Member administrations joined the dialogue to explore the ways for the sustainable development of free zones with enhanced Customs involvement.
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27 June 2022
The WCO Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) held a hybrid meeting at WCO Headquarters on 20 and 21 June 2022, for the first time in over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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27 June 2022
Over the past years, the Niger Customs Administration has been fully committed to wide-ranging reform and modernization to successfully implement trade facilitation agreement measures.
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25 June 2022
Directors General of the 184 WCO Member Customs administrations gathered at the 139th/140th Sessions of the WCO Council, the Organization’s highest decision-making body, held in Brussels, Belgium from 23 to 25 June 2022.
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25 June 2022
On 26 June every year, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community to mark the United Nations’ International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, with the objective of strengthening action and cooperation in achieving a world free of drug abuse. People all over the world will join in to observe this special occasion to help raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs pose to society.
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24 June 2022
The WCO has published the 96th edition of WCO News, the Organization’s 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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24 June 2022
From 17 to 19 June 2022, as part of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) work plan on Strategic Planning in Colombia, the WCO held a National Workshop on Advanced practices for Strategic Planning and Project Management for the Tax and Customs Administration of Colombia (DIAN).
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23 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) issues its 2021 Illicit Trade Report (ITR), an annual publication which offers a comprehensive study of illicit trade flows through an in-depth analysis of seizure data and case studies voluntarily submitted by Member Customs administrations worldwide. The information captured in the ITR provides essential insight into the occurrences of illicit trade, thereby assisting Customs administrations in understanding trends and patterns and making enlightened decisions to secure cross-border trade.
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22 June 2022
As announced during the 42nd Session of the Enforcement Committee, the World Customs Organization (WCO) has launched a new Customs Enforcement Network Communication (CENcomm) platform, namely the closed virtual ExciseNET Experts’ Group focused on tobacco and alcohol fraud.
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22 June 2022
At the invitation of the World Free Zones Organization (World FZO), on 13 June 2022 WCO Deputy Secretary General Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa delivered a keynote speech at the Annual Conference of the Global Alliance of Special Economic Zones (GASEZ), held in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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22 June 2022
At the request of the Dominican Republic, the WCO held a virtual Workshop on Customs valuation for the South America, North America, Central America and the Caribbean (AMS) region from 13 to 17June 2022.
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22 June 2022
Throughout May and June, the Capacity Building Directorate (CBD) E-Learning Team organized six meetings with the CLiKC! National Coordinators (NC) from the WCO regions of Americas and Caribbean (AMS), Asia Pacific (AP), East and Southern Africa (ESA), Europe (EUR), North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) and West and Central Africa (WCA).
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22 June 2022
A national Workshop on Rules of Origin was held by the WCO from 13 to 17 June 2022, being organised in cooperation with the Burundi Revenue Authority (BRA), under the sponsorship of the Customs Cooperation Fund-China (CCF-China).
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22 June 2022
The WCO Data Analytics team gave 3 lectures on 13, 14 and 15 June 2022 to the WCO scholars at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul.
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22 June 2022
Upon request from the Director General of Oman Customs, Mr. Saeed bin Khamis Al Ghaithi, the World Customs Organization (WCO) organised, from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Muscat, Oman, a workshop to train 15 Customs officers on data analytics and mirror analysis.
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22 June 2022
With the financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) of Korea, the WCO organised from 22 to 26 May 2022 in Amman, Jordan, a high-level Workshop to explore key strategic issues for Yemen Customs to be able to advance from crisis response to recovery.
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22 June 2022
The WCO Virtual Working Group (VWG) on Gender Equality & Diversity (GED) met through an online meeting on the 16th of June to discuss forward planning and recent progress on implementing GED in Customs.
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21 June 2022
From 16 to 17 June, 2022, the first Conference of the Ministers of Culture of the Euro-Mediterranean region took place in Naples, Italy. Initiated by the Italian Ministry of Culture as a regional initiative stemming from the G20 that had taken place in Rome in July 2021, this Conference gathered more than 40 Ministerial delegations from all over the Mediterranean as well as neighbouring countries.
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21 June 2022
Among the ten key factors of the WCO Revised Arusha Declaration, the Audit & Investigation factor is a priority in the development of an efficient national strategy for Customs integrity.
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17 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) supported the Bureau of Customs of The Philippines (BoC) with an Integrity assessment validation and action-planning mission from 2 to 6 May 2022 in Manila, Philippines.
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17 June 2022
As part of its capacity building strategy and under the sponsorship of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) of Saudi Arabia, the WCO organized a Regional Pre‑Accreditation Workshop for Arabic-speaking experts on Harmonized System from Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in which twelve Customs Officials from the Region took part.
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17 June 2022
The WCO successfully conducted a sub-regional workshop on data analytics for the Pacific region. A total of 21 participants from 12 countries attended the workshop, which was held in a hybrid format in Nadi, Fiji, from June 7-9, 2022.
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17 June 2022
The WCO is pleased to announce that the LITE DATE model for fraud detection with the advanced Data Analytics course is now available in English and French on CLiKC as of 17th June, supported by the Customs Corporate Fund of Korea (CCF-K).
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16 June 2022
To successfully launch the WCO SIE Scholarship Programme, ideally in September 2022, with the financial support of CCF-Korea, the Capacity Building Directorate sent out a survey on 15th June 2022 to identify the needs of SIEs around the globe.
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15 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully carried out a National Workshop on Time Release Study (TRS) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from the 6th to the 10th of June 2022, within the framework of SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme.
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15 June 2022
The 9th meeting of the Committee on Trade in Goods of the AfCFTA was held from 6 to 10 June 2022 to consider the Reports of Sub-Committees under the Committee on Trade in Goods.
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14 June 2022
On 10 June 2022, the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) held an inauguration ceremony to announce the official launch of a new electronic tariff platform, developed by the LRA in partnership with the EU-WCO Programme for Harmonized System in Africa (HS-Africa Programme), funded by the European Union.
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14 June 2022
From 2 to 3 June, 2022, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), held a Strategic Planning Follow-up Workshop for the Customs Administration of Bolivia (AN, for its Spanish acronym) to support the implementation of their newly developed Multi-year Strategic Plan.
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14 June 2022
From 8 to 9 June 2022, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) team conducted a follow-up mission to the Customs Administration of Serbia (CAS), aiming to validate the progress achieved in the implementation of the GTFP during its first year and to finetune the assistance going forward.
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13 June 2022
WCO in cooperation with JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) organized pre-Accreditation Workshop for Technical and Operational Advisors (TOAs) on Risk Management at the WCO Headquarter in Brussels from 30 May to 3 June 2022. This workshop was organized as part of the strategic approach taken by the WCO aiming at expanding the pool of WCO Experts and Technical and Operational Advisors in order to respond to the needs expressed by the WCO Members on these important subjects in a time manner.
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13 June 2022
With the approval of the Government of Japan, which has granted a one-year extension, the WCO COVID-19 Project will continue until June 2023.
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13 June 2022
60 registered participants from 24 Member administrations participated in the WCO Americas and Caribbean Regional Online Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), which took place from 7 to 9 June 2022.
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10 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a PCA monitoring and follow-up mission to the State Customs Committee (SCC) of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 30 May to 3 June 2022.
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10 June 2022
From 1 to 3 June 2022 the WCO COVID-19 Project, funded by the Government of Japan, carried out a mission in Yaoundé to support Cameroon Customs in improving its ability to respond to unexpected scenarios, such as infectious diseases and natural disasters, and use digital tools for the management of inbound passengers’ Customs declarations.
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10 June 2022
On 7-8 June 2022, the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme held a virtual workshop on internal affairs in cooperation with the Jordan Customs Department (JCD), facilitated by experts from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA).
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10 June 2022
To streamline the operation of global supply chains, and to facilitate the cross-border trade of COVID-19 medical supplies, the WCO has been actively working together with WTO, WHO and other international organizations under the pandemic.
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09 June 2022
From 30 April 2021 to 4 May 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) ran the largest-ever Customs-led global operation involving 160 Member Customs administrations, with the support of a number of international organizations, to crack down on the illicit trade in medicines, vaccines and medical devices related to COVID-19. The operation, called STOP II, consisted of three phases. On 9 June 2022, the final results of Operation STOP II were announced during a Global Webinar.
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09 June 2022
The 29th Meeting of the Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 30 May to 3 June 2022.
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09 June 2022
On 8 June 2022, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) attended the 8th Meeting of the Global Counter-Terrorism Compact Coordination Committee hosted by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT).
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08 June 2022
On 8 June 2022, at the invitation of Mr. Ho Chee Pong, Director-General of Singapore Customs and 2022’s Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Directors-General of Customs Meeting, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), participated in the 11th ASEAN - WCO Consultation.
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08 June 2022
On 8 June 2022, United Nations’ (UN) World Oceans Day, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community to mark this day and draw attention to the role oceans play in sustaining a healthy planet, and to the challenges surrounding their protection and conservation. In line with this year’s UN World Oceans Day theme, “Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean”, the WCO aims to shed light on the communities that work together to protect and revitalize the oceans and everything they sustain, and the ideas and solutions put forward to achieve this.
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07 June 2022
Approximately one billion people in the world are directly affected by situations of fragility and conflict. These situations spill over the national borders and grow into regional and sometimes political crises between states, beyond the countries directly affected by the conflict, and cause global social and economic distress. In this context, the WCO Secretariat has issued a note on the role of Customs in Fragile and Conflict-affected situations.
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06 June 2022
In early April 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the Egmont Group (EG) of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and INTERPOL successfully concluded their anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing (AML-CTF) joint Operation named “TENTACLE-Latin America”, with combined seizures totalling nearly 3 million US dollars (USD).
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03 June 2022
From 24 to 27 May 2022, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), organized a study visit for the Customs Administration of Colombia (DIAN, for its Spanish acronym) to the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM, for its Spanish acronym), aiming to foster cooperation and exchange of experiences and good practices on risk management.
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03 June 2022
The Revised Arusha Declaration, the WCO’s central policy document concerning good governance and integrity in Customs, is now available digitally, for faster and more user-friendly navigation directly via this link: rad.wcoomd.org.
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03 June 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized an online Regional Workshop on Free Zones for the Americas and the Caribbean region from 23 to 25 May 2022, in close cooperation with the WCO Americas and the Caribbean Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB/AMS).
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03 June 2022
Each year, 5 June is an important day for the World Customs Organization (WCO), as it joins the international community in celebrating World Environment Day and pledges its support for actions taken to restore and protect our planet.
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03 June 2022
From May 16 to 27, May 2022, Members of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) held the 7th meeting of the Sub-Committee on Rules of Origin (RoO) to discuss outstanding issues, the draft AfCFTA RoO manual, and the alignment of Rules of Origin legal texts and related trading documents. The meeting took place in Accra, Ghana.
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03 June 2022
From 23 to 27 May, experts via the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) delivered successive workshops to officials from key areas within Guatemala’s Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT) and El Salvador’s Dirección General de Aduanas (DGA) on effective stakeholder consultations
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01 June 2022
Under the background of transition to virtual and/or hybrid training model, the ROCB A/P in cooperation with the WCO Secretariat organized a regional online workshop on Training Management from 24 to 26 May 2022, in order to respond to the joint decision made by the 19th Asia Pacific Regional Training Center (RTC) Heads Meeting in October 2021.
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01 June 2022
The WCO COVID-19 Project, financially supported by the Government of Japan, organized from 23 to 26 May a capacity building workshop in Port-au-Prince to assist Haiti Customs, other government agencies and stakeholders working in disaster management, in improving their ability to respond to emergency situations such as natural disasters, infectious diseases and other similar events.
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