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31 enero 2017
At the invitation of Col. Khalifa Alsiyabi, Director General of Oman Customs, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Muscat, Oman on 29 and 30 January 2017 to join in the International Customs Day celebrations during which the new Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Programme was launched.
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31 enero 2017
Thai Customs has established its Authorized Economic Operator (AE0) Programme in accordance with the WCO Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade.
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30 enero 2017
At the invitation of Mr. Aydin Aliyev, Director General of Azerbaijan Customs, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Baku, Azerbaijan, on 27 January 2017 to speak at the opening ceremony of the conference on “Economic Security - Aspect of Trade Facilitation and Security”, held at the Azerbaijan Economic University on the occasion of International Customs Day and the 25th Anniversary of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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27 enero 2017
On the eve of the International Customs Day introducing the theme of “Data analysis for Effective Border Management”, the WCO finalized the deployment of the National Customs Enforcement Network (nCEN) application in Haiti with an nCEN Workshop in Port-au-Prince.
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27 enero 2017
WCO celebrates International Customs Day 2017 and invites members to share best practices
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26 enero 2017
In January 2017, the WCO provided strategic support to the ECA that focussed on strategic planning and performance management at a workshop held in Alexandria, Egypt.
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26 enero 2017
Data is generated by every economic activity, including the movement of goods and people and circulates extensively along the global value chain. Collecting and analyzing data to enhance the effectiveness of border management is of paramount importance to Customs administrations. This year, in the context of the International Customs Day, the WCO is introducing the theme “Data Analysis for Effective Border Management” to encourage the global Customs community to pursue their efforts and activities in this area.
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26 enero 2017
As part of its Capacity Building programme, the WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) workshop from 9 until 20 January 2017 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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26 enero 2017
At its first meeting held in September 2016, the WCO Working Group on E-Commerce (WGEC) has established four sub-groups with associated work packages, namely Trade Facilitation and Simplification of Procedures, Safety and Security, Revenue Collection, and Measurement and Analysis.
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25 enero 2017
The 32nd Session of the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC) was held from 17 to 20 January 2017 and was attended by Customs laboratory staff from 33 WCO Member countries and the European Union (EU).
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24 enero 2017
Following a request from Sudan Customs, recognizing the strategic importance of human resources in creating organizational value, the WCO completed a five day workshop in Khartoum on the 25 to 29 of December to support Sudan Customs in designing and implementing a competency based approached in their Human Resource Management.
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24 enero 2017
The 71st WCO Fellowship Programme, intended for French-speakers, was launched in Brussels on Monday 23 January 2017.
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23 enero 2017
The Workshop, a follow up event on the WCO Security Programme Strategic Seminar held at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels in June 2016, was hosted by the Jordan Customs administration at the Regional Training Center for the MENA Region and attended by 15 participants from 11 countries.
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23 enero 2017
The Secretary General of the WCO, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, participated in a special panel debate on Cultural Leadership in Davos on Wednesday 18 January 2017; in the context of the World Economic Forum’s 47th Annual Meeting and urged for further partnership to develop a specialized curriculum on Cultural Heritage for Customs officers.
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23 enero 2017
The Workshop, a follow up event on the WCO Security Programme Strategic Seminar held at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels in June 2016, was hosted by the Jordan Customs administration at the Regional Training Center for the MENA Region and attended by 15 participants from 11 countries.
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20 enero 2017
Recognizing the importance of the entry into force of the new version of the Harmonized System (HS) Nomenclature, the WCO successfully led a five-day seminar on implementing the amendments in the 2017 version of the Harmonized System (HS 2017) and on the harmonized Technical Guidelines on Advance Rulings for Classification, Origin and Valuation. This seminar was held at the Amman Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Jordan, from 11 to 15 December 2016.
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20 enero 2017
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Institute for Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM) today announced the results of their fourth common initiative in the fight against fake medicines on the African continent. This is a new record seizure of 113 million* illicit and potentially dangerous pharmaceutical products, which took place in the context of Operation ACIM (Action against Counterfeit and Illicit Medicines) in September 2016. The number of seizures made in joint IRACM-WCO operations has now reached dramatic proportions, with almost 900 million counterfeit and illicit medicines seized at the borders of the continent.
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20 enero 2017
On 18 January 2017, Burundi deposited with the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization its instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System).
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18 enero 2017
A World Customs Organisation (WCO) capacity building mission was conducted from 26 to 30 December, 2016 in Tunis, Tunisia to help Libyan Customs reform its Human Resources function by adopting and implementing a competency based approach.
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17 enero 2017
In cooperation with EU-FRONTEX, a WCO Customs workshop on the Organizational Development Package (WCO-ODP) was held in Chisinau (Moldova) from 13 to 15 December 2016, within the framework of the Eastern Partnership IBM Capacity Building Project.
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16 enero 2017
Annex III (Table HS 2012 – 2017) to the ‘WCO Guide for Technical Update of Preferential Rules of Origin’ has been updated to reflect the recent changes in the Correlation Tables HS 2012 - 2017.
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16 enero 2017
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today that expands cooperation to tighten national and international controls on the trade in toxic chemicals.
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12 enero 2017
In coordination with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Trade Center (ITC), the World Customs Organization (WCO) co-sponsored a National Workshop “Implementing the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement” which was held in Islamabad, Pakistan from 4 – 6 January 2017.The 3-day workshop was opened by Pakistan Minister for Commerce, H. E. Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan in welcoming experts from international organizations and more than 50 participants from different government agencies and other stakeholders, including the Customs wing of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Ministries of Commerce, Finance and Communications (Transport), the National food Security, private sector associations, including Freight Forwarders Association, Insurance Association, Chambers of commerce, and representatives from Academic research institutes.
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12 enero 2017
Following an invitation from the Jordan Customs Authority, and with generous support from the Japan Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF Japan), the WCO delivered a diagnostic assessment of Jordan Customs’ risk management capabilities, structure, and functions.
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11 enero 2017
At the invitation of the Maltese Presidency of the European Union (EU), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya addressed delegates from the 28 EU Member States attending the meeting of the Customs Union Group on 11 January 2017 in Brussels.
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10 enero 2017
The WCO Harmonized System Committee (HSC) held its 58th Session at the WCO headquarters in Brussels from 28 September to 7 October 2016
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09 enero 2017
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya met the Director of the European Police Office (EUROPOL), Mr. Rob Wainwright at the WCO Head Office in Brussels on Friday 6 January 2017 to discuss ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation between Customs and police.
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06 enero 2017
The World Customs Organization (WCO), through its Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) through its Under-Secretary General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 23 December 2016 to formalize existing cooperation to enhance State’s implementation of cross-border arms regulation, with a view to combating small arms and light weapons (SALW) trafficking in particular.
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06 enero 2017
The Secretary General of the WCO Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, in his capacity as the depository of the Convention, received the Instrument of accession of Benin to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) on 5 January 2017.
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06 enero 2017
In seeking to effectively manage Customs risk, as a result of ever-increasing trade volumes, Saudi Customs decided to enhance its risk-based controls at borders by setting up a post clearance audit (PCA) section in January 2017.
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06 enero 2017
Under the auspices of the WCO-INAMA project (funded by Sweden, US Department of State, GiZ and the CITES Secretariat) the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) received support from the WCO in strengthening its intelligence function.
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04 enero 2017
Thanks to support from the WCO’s WACAM Project, for over a year now Gabon has been working on the reform and modernization of its Human Resource Management (HRM) system.
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04 enero 2017
As part of its reform policy, Mali Customs decided to begin the process of modernizing its Human Resource Management (HRM).
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04 enero 2017
A Regional Workshop to assist WCO Members of the WCO Middle East and North Africa Region with the uniform interpretation and application and the timely implementation of the Harmonized System Nomenclature 2017 Edition and the improvement of fair, efficient and effective revenue collection, in addition to advance rulings, sponsored by Japan Cooperation Fund, was held at WCO RTC for the MENA Amman, Jordan, from 11 to 15 December 2016.
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04 enero 2017
The Nepalese Customs Department, with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Customs Organization (WCO), held a three-day seminar in Chitwan, Nepal on 26 – 28 November 2016, with the objective to validate their Fifth Customs Reform and Modernization Strategic and Action Plan (CRMSAP) 2017-2021.
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03 enero 2017
The new version of the Harmonized System (HS) Nomenclature entered into force on 1 January 2017. Developed by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and adopted in 1983, this is the Sixth Edition of this global standard, used by over 200 countries and Economic or Customs Unions (including the 154 Contracting Parties to the HS Convention) for classifying goods in international trade.
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