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29 mayo 2019
At the invitation of the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC), WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended its XLI Annual Conference, held in Havana, Cuba from 20 to 24 May 2019.
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29 mayo 2019
The WCO conducted a National Workshop on Post Clearance Audit for Armenia from 13 to 17 May 2019 with the financial support of the Eurocustoms Fund. The workshop was held in Yerevan.
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29 mayo 2019
30 Member administrations from the Europe and Asia/Pacific regions, representatives of the Eurasian Economic Union and key stakeholders came together for intensive discussions on Customs procedures and controls in Special Customs Zones/Free Zones (SCZs) at the Inter-Regional Forum on SCZs, held from 15 to 17 May 2019 in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan.
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29 mayo 2019
The 54th Meeting of the Harmonized System Working Group (GTSH) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Customs was held from 6 to 17 May, 2019, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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28 mayo 2019
At the request of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SCC), the WCO conducted a mission with the aim of strengthening the Customs’ institutional capacity for Classification, Origin and Valuation work, in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 21 and 24 May 2019.
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28 mayo 2019
Held in the WCO Headquarters in Brussels from 22 to 24 May 2019, the WCO Global Experience-Sharing Workshop on Inward and Outward Processing Procedures (IP/OP procedures) brought together almost 40 experienced officers from all six WCO regions.
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27 mayo 2019
As part of on-going efforts to strengthen Customs border management, modernize Customs operations, and enhance the Ukraine’s institutional trade platform, the State Fiscal Service (SFS) has conducted a number of activities and extensive planning to fulfill these objectives.
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27 mayo 2019
En su 48 ª Sesión celebrada del 13 al 17 de mayo de 2019, el Comité Técnico de Valoración en Aduana (Comité Técnico) adoptó un instrumento (Opinión consultiva 23.1) respecto a la valoración en aduana de las mercancías adquiridas en una venta flash.
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27 mayo 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO) in collaboration with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group of States Secretariat, the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC), and the host country of Trinidad and Tobago, organized a five-day Workshop on a new WCO initiative focusing on the challenges and opportunities faced by Customs administrations in Small Island Economies (SIEs), in Port of Spain from 13 to 17 May 2019.
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24 mayo 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Dicksons Kateshumbwa, Vice-Chair for the WCO East and Southern Africa Region and Commissioner of Customs, Uganda Revenue Authority, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 24th East and Southern Africa (ESA) Region Governing Council Meeting, held in Gaborone, Botswana on 23 and 24 May 2019.
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24 mayo 2019
Under the framework of the Finland East and Southern Africa (ESA) Programme II, the WCO successfully delivered a second regional workshop from 6-10th of May at the Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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24 mayo 2019
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, a total of thirteen officials from the Customs administrations in five East African countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and the Directorate of Customs of the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat visited Thailand and Japan on 7-10 and 13-16 May 2019.
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23 mayo 2019
In its ongoing endeavours to support the Member administrations in capacity building activities, the WCO conducted a sub-regional workshop on Risk and Compliance Management at the Regional Training Centre in Suva, Fiji, from 18 to 22 March 2019 in collaboration with the Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB), Asia/Pacific (A/P) region and Fiji Revenue and Customs Service (FRCS).
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23 mayo 2019
WCO support to the Bahamas Customs on Risk Management
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22 mayo 2019
On 21 May 2019, the World Customs Organization (WCO), in partnership with DigitalGlobe, hosted a Discovery Day in Brussels on geodata applications for Customs.
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22 mayo 2019
The 14th Meeting of the High Level Working Group of the CPLP took place from 7 to 10 May 2019, in Belém in Pará, Brazil.
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21 mayo 2019
In April and May 2019, the Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States (RILO CIS) welcomed its National Contact Points (NCP) from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Customs for a five-day training course at the RILO office in Moscow.
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20 mayo 2019
The 78th WCO Fellowship Programme, intended for Spanish-speakers, was launched in Brussels on Monday 13 May 2019.
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17 mayo 2019
On 13 May 2019, on the occasion of the 21st Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) Annual Conference held in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the representatives of the Cook Islands and Tuvalu deposited with Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa (WCO Deputy Secretary General) their respective country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC).
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17 mayo 2019
WCO in cooperation of and assistance with US Export Control and Related Border Security Porgramme (EXBS) has delivered a four day national workshop on Strategic Trade Contorl Enforcement (STCE) in Tunis from 15th to 18th April.
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16 mayo 2019
At the invitation of the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO), WCO Deputy Secretary General Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended its 21st Annual Conference, held in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), from 13 to 16 May 2019.
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14 mayo 2019
At the invitation of Dr. Domitien Ndihokubwayo, Burundi’s Minister of Finance, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Bujumbura, Burundi on 13 and 14 May 2019 in support of the country’s ongoing Customs modernization process.
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14 mayo 2019
The Trade Facilitation Agreement promises greater trade efficiency by targeting administrative barriers to trade that include unnecessary border inspections, excessive document and data requirements, manual processes, lack of coordination among border authorities and complex inefficient rules and procedures.
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14 mayo 2019
At the invitation of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, the WCO Secretariat spoke at the side event of the BRS Conference of the Parties (2019 COPs), held in Geneva on 8th May 2019, about the cooperation between the WCO and the BRS Conference Secretariats in using the Harmonized System (HS) to address environmental and social issues.
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13 mayo 2019
The WCO contributes to the combating of environmental crime, in particular, illegal wildlife trade, illegal trade in hazardous and other waste, ozone depleting substances (ODSs) and illegal trade in timber through various activities falling under the WCO Environment Programme.
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10 mayo 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Pranab Kumar Das, Asia/Pacific Regional Vice-Chair and Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) of India, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 20th Asia/Pacific Regional Heads of Customs Administrations Conference held in Kochi, Kerala, India from 8 to 10 May 2019.
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10 mayo 2019
The WCO organized a Risk Management (RM) Workshop in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from 27 April to 1 May 2019 with financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan (CCF/Japan).
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09 mayo 2019
The Steering Committee of the EU-WCO Programme for the Harmonized System (HS) in Africa held its first meeting on 2 May 2019 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels.
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09 mayo 2019
Under the framework of the Agreement between the WCO and the Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCED), signed in March 2018, to improve and enhance the technical capacity (TACB) of the BCED , a National Workshop for the Application of the TRIPS / IPR in the Bahamas was held in Nassau from April 1st to 5th 2019.
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09 mayo 2019
Under the auspices of WCO/CCF-Reserves, the WCO conducted a 5-day workshop from April 25 to 29, 2019 at the National Customs of Paraguay (DNA) Headquarters in the City of Asuncion, Paraguay, to work on the design of the new five year Strategic Plan, comprising a management reporting system to assist in the decision-making process.
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09 mayo 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Julio Fernandez Frutos, Director General of Paraguay Customs, and Mr. Ricardo Peralta Saucedo, Director General of Mexico Customs and Permanent Secretary of the Multilateral Agreement on Mutual Assistance for Directors General of Latin America, Spain and Portugal (COMALEP), the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the WCO-COMALEP Private Sector Forum as well as the XL COMALEP Meeting of Customs National Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, held in Asunción, Paraguay from 1 to 3 May 2019.
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09 mayo 2019
The 13th Session of the WCO’s Technical Expert Group on Air Cargo Security (TEGACS) opened on 29 April 2019 with a record number of participants from among the World Customs Organization (WCO) Members, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Member States, and from the private sector.
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09 mayo 2019
The first Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs activity in Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) aimed at identifying current integrity-related strategies and initiatives within the institution as well as priority areas for future action.
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07 mayo 2019
At the request of, and the support from, the Qatarese General Authority of Customs, the WCO organized a national Workshop on SMART Borders from 23 to 25 April 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
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07 mayo 2019
On 2 -3 May 2019, the World Customs Organization (WCO) hosted the Global Conference on the future of the Harmonized System (HS), which gathered over 300 participants from Member Customs administrations, partner international organizations, industry associations, trade professionals, import/export companies and academia.
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02 mayo 2019
At the invitation of the Director General of Dominican Republic Customs, Mr. Enrique Ramírez Paniagua, in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the Americas/Caribbean (AMS) region, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the XXII Regional Conference of Customs Directors General for the AMS, held in Asunción, Paraguay, on 29 and 30 April 2019.
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