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![[From r. to l.] WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya and ADB President Takehiko Nakao meet at WCO Headquarters on 27 September 2019 to discuss topics of common interest](/-/media/wco/public/images/media/press-releases/september-2019/adb_sg.jpg?h=149&la=en&w=180)
30 septiembre 2019
On 27 September 2019, the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Takehiko Nakao, visited WCO Headquarters in Brussels.
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30 septiembre 2019
The latest research paper produced by the WCO has been released today. Entitled “Extraterritorality of Free Zones: the Necessity for Customs Involvement”, it examines the current situation regarding Customs procedures and controls related to Free Zones.
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27 septiembre 2019
The 2019-2020 WCO-Japan Career Development Programme commenced in Brussels at WCO Headquarters on Monday 16 September 2019.
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27 septiembre 2019
The WCO participated in the IV Annual Authorized Economic Operator event in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (DR), which was hosted by the DR Customs on 6 September, 2019.
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25 septiembre 2019
Tunisia’s first activity as a partner administration of the WCO’s Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs took place in Tunis, Tunisia, on 16-20th September 2019.
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25 septiembre 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO) in collaboration with the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service (FRCS), the WCO Asia-Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building (A/P ROCB), and Oceana Customs Organization (OCO) organized a workshop on the challenges and opportunities faced by Customs administrations in Small Island Economies (SIEs) in the Asia-Pacific region, from 10-14 September 2019 in Suva, Fiji.
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25 septiembre 2019
The WCO Capacity Building Directorate organized a Leadership and Management Top Executive Retreat (TER) for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) from 17 to 20 September 2019 near Nakuru, Kenya.
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25 septiembre 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Khurshed Karimzoda, Director General of the Customs Service of Tajikistan, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 23 and 24 September 2019 to meet political leaders and observe the state of play regarding Customs reform.
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24 septiembre 2019
The 79th WCO Fellowship Programme, intended for English-speakers, was launched in Brussels on Monday 23 September 2019.
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23 septiembre 2019
Representatives of the six Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) gathered between 10 and 13 September 2019 in Mombasa, Kenya, to review their work in the area of implementation of the Harmonized System (HS).
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23 septiembre 2019
The worldwide deployment of the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) National Customs Enforcement Network (nCEN) application is underway, with Pakistan now joining the club of 35 Customs administrations using the nCEN in their fight against international trans-border crime. Pakistan represents the seventh country in the Asia/Pacific region in which the nCEN has become operational.
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23 septiembre 2019
On 15 and 16 September 2019 the EU-WCO Programme for the Harmonized System (HS) in Africa organised a series of meetings with representatives of the Customs Administration of Somalia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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20 septiembre 2019
AAt the invitation of the African Union (AU) and Mr. Dicksons Kateshwumba, Commissioner of Customs in the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and WCO Council Chair, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 11th Ordinary Meeting of the AU Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs (AUSCDGC), held in Kampala, Uganda on 19 and 20 September 2019.
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20 septiembre 2019
From 10 to 13 September, Chadian Customs received a mission from the WCO Secretariat at the Headquarters of the General Directorate of Customs and Indirect Taxes in Ndjamena, the country's capital.
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19 septiembre 2019
Under the framework of the Mercator Programme, the WCO successfully delivered a workshop to pilot its newly developed advanced Post Clearance Audit (PCA) Training Package at the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA).
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17 septiembre 2019
The Tonga Customs Administration welcomed a WCO team to conduct a risk management diagnostic mission from 19 to 23 August 2019 at Nuku'alofa Customs office, part of the Ministry of Revenue and Customs.
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17 septiembre 2019
On 10 September 2019, officers from Brazil Customs’ Port Control Unit (PCU) in the Port of Santos profiled outbound container shipments to Europe.
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16 septiembre 2019
On 12 and 13 September 2019, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Washington D.C. and had a series of meetings with several U.S. Government agencies, highlighting the work of the WCO and areas of common interest.
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![Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, WCO Deputy Secretary General [l.], and Mr. Yi Xiaozhun, WTO Deputy Director General [r.]](/-/media/wco/public/images/media/press-releases/september-2019/wto_slider_1.jpg?h=135&la=en&w=180)
13 septiembre 2019
The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, recently visited World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to raise awareness of Customs’ role and the WCO’s work in the e-commerce field, through its Framework of Standards on Cross-Border E-Commerce.
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12 septiembre 2019
Under the framework of the Mercator Programme support provided to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in Pakistan, the WCO successfully delivered an advanced PCA training in Karachi, Pakistan on the 26thto 30thof August 2019, benefitting 17 Customs officers at the FBR’s from PCA units from the three regions of Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.
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10 septiembre 2019
On 5 September 2019, Brazil deposited its Instrument of Accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC), thus becoming the 120th Contracting Party to the RKC.
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06 septiembre 2019
On 3 September 2019, the WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, gave a special lecture to WCO scholars at Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) in Tokyo, Japan. Twenty-one scholars from WCO Members who are following the 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 AGU attended the lecture.
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05 septiembre 2019
Between 26 and 30 August in Kathmandu, Nepal, senior managers from across the Nepal Department of Customs (DOC) conducted an integrity self-assessment, facilitated by experts from the WCO.
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05 septiembre 2019
Pursuing its support to the Egyptian Customs Authority (ECA), two national Workshops were organised under the United States’ Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in Alexandria and Port Said on 18 -19 and on 21 - 22 August 2019 respectively.
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04 septiembre 2019
As part of Capacity Building, WCO organized a Leadership and Management Top Executive Retreat (TER) for the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) from 25 to 28 August 2019.
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04 septiembre 2019
WCO organized a Leadership and Management Top Executive Retreat (TER) for the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) from 20 to 23 August.
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04 septiembre 2019
As part of the Regional Train-the-Trainers Programme for French‑speaking trainers of the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region, between 22 and 26 July 2019, the WCO Regional Training Centre in Mauritius hosted a group of Customs officials to enhance their skills for delivering HS and Customs Valuation training in accordance with WCO standards and in line with the necessary requirements.
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04 septiembre 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with support from the World Bank Group (WBG), conducted an ‘Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Validation Training Course’ for Lao People’s Democratic Republic from 26 to 30 August 2019 in Vientiane.
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![[From l. to r.] Guatemala’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Jairo Estrada, WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa, Superintendent of Guatemala’s Fiscal Agency Abel Cruz, and Ambassador of Guatemala to Belgium José Alberto Briz Gutierrez](/-/media/wco/public/images/media/press-releases/september-2019/guatemala_slider.JPG?h=94&la=en&w=180)
04 septiembre 2019
On 2 September 2019, Guatemala’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Jairo Estrada, and the Superintendent of Guatemala’s Fiscal Agency, Mr. Abel Cruz, visited WCO Headquarters in Brussels.
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04 septiembre 2019
An Accreditation Workshop was conducted between 26 and 30 August 2019 in Lusaka, Zambia, under the auspices of the INAMA Project with the support of the COPES and Mercator Programmes.
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03 septiembre 2019
A WCO Revenue Package national workshop on the implementation of an Advance Rulings system for classification and origin, funded by the Finland Project for ESA, was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 26 to 30 August 2019.
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03 septiembre 2019
The WCO-Bahamas Training Programme comes to an end, the final missions are being carried out, while follow-up actions and finalization are ongoing.
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02 septiembre 2019
WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the TICAD 7 - Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development - held in Yokohama, Japan from 28 to 30 August 2019 to speak about Customs’ contributions to the sustainable development of Africa.
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