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24 diciembre 2020
The 55th Meeting of the Harmonized System Working Group (GTSH) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Customs was held in three stages, from 29 to 30 October 2020, from 16 to 27 November 2020, and from 14 to 18 December 2020, via videoconference, with the coordination of the Tax and Customs Authority of Portugal.
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24 diciembre 2020
The 23rd Meeting of the World Customs Organization Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 16 to 18 December 2020.
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23 diciembre 2020
On 21 December 2020, the EU-WCO Programme for the Harmonized System (HS) in Africa (HS-Africa Programme) delivered a workshop for the Namibia Customs and Excise (NCE) on the implementation of an Advance Ruling System.
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23 diciembre 2020
The WCO successfully concluded this year’s series of missions on implementation of the Harmonized System (HS) delivered for Member states of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC).
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23 diciembre 2020
The WCO Data Model (DM) is a key tool for promoting greater connectivity and interoperability between Member administrations, other government agencies, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders.
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22 diciembre 2020
Following the adoption by the December 2020 Policy Commission and Council of key documents forming part of the WCO E-Commerce Package, the WCO web-site now features the complete set of tools supporting the implementation of the Framework of Standards on Cross-Border E-Commerce (E-Commerce FoS).
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22 diciembre 2020
The WCO Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Health and Safety Programme continued its module of training for Members, holding a three-day webinar from 16 to 18 December 2020 for 16 officials of the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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22 diciembre 2020
The WCO, through the Data Model Projects Team (DMPT), maintains the WCO Data Model (WCO DM) and produces annual releases to keep the WCO DM up to date.
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21 diciembre 2020
Turkmenistan is strongly considering its accession to the Convention on Temporary Admission (the Istanbul Convention, signed in Istanbul on 26 June 1990).
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21 diciembre 2020
On 15-18 December 2020 the WCO COVID-19 Project hosted and facilitated the Online Interregional Workshop on Disaster management and Supply Chain Continuity in times of COVID-19 for the Eastern and Southern Western and Central Africa regions.
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18 diciembre 2020
With the theme of Meeting the SDGs - Ensuring Customs involvement for Free Zones’ competitiveness, safety and sustainability, the First Global Free Zone Conference was virtually held on 14th December 2020 with the support of Japan’s Customs Cooperation Fund.
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18 diciembre 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) co-organized an Online Workshop on Modern Customs Procedures for Improved Control of Trade in CITES-listed Species from 7 to 9 December 2020, funded by the European Union.
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18 diciembre 2020
The WCO has published the 2020 edition of the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Compendium, offering a concise and structured overview of existing AEO programmes around the world and of Mutual Recognition Arrangements/Agreements (MRAs) signed between Customs administrations.
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16 diciembre 2020
The latest version of the Coordinated Border Management (CBM) Compendium contains a number of new features and aims to comprehensively support Customs administrations, Cross-Border Regulatory Agencies (CBRAs) and international organizations in strengthening implementation of CBM in various fields.
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16 diciembre 2020
The WCO carried on the series of technical assistance on the implementation of the Harmonized System (HS) with the Member states of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), within the framework of the EU-WCO Programme for the HS in Africa.
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15 diciembre 2020
The first regional meeting of nCEN Programme Leaders for West and Central Africa was held by the WCO as a virtual meeting due to the restrictions imposed by COVID‑19.
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15 diciembre 2020
A virtual diagnostic mission was conducted by an integrated team consisting of Enforcement and Facilitation staff of the Compliance and Facilitation Directorate with the Customs Administration of Vietnam, from 7 to 11 December 2020.
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15 diciembre 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Directorate-General for the Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) of the European Commission concluded an Administrative Arrangement on the activities of the WCO Regional Customs Laboratory (RCL).
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14 diciembre 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with the support of experts from Spanish Customs and the United States Customs and Border Protection, has successfully completed an Integrity Diagnostic mission for the benefit of the Federal Revenue of Brazil (RFB).
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14 diciembre 2020
On 7, 8, 9, and 11 December 2020, the WCO organized a virtual National Workshop on combating counterfeiting and piracy, for the benefit of Namibia’s Customs and Excise, Police, as well as Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA), and some private sector Rights Holders representatives.
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14 diciembre 2020
Given the increase of the number of requests for binding tariff information submitted to the Customs Administration, North Macedonia has been working on the improvement of its classification infrastructure in order to achieve uniformity in the application of the HS Nomenclature. North Macedonia requested the WCO support in order to provide technical assistance in that regard.
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12 diciembre 2020
Heads of Delegation of some 150 WCO Member Customs administrations took part in the 137th Session of the WCO Council, the Organization’s supreme decision-making body, which was held virtually from 10 to 12 December 2020 under the chairmanship of Mr. Ahmed Al Khalifa, Vice-Chair for the North of Africa, Near and Middle East region and President of Customs Affairs in Bahrain.
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11 diciembre 2020
At its 137th Session, the Customs Co-operation Council unanimously adopted a Resolution on the Role of Customs in Facilitating the Cross-Border Movement of Situationally Critical Medicines and Vaccines. The Resolution marks an important milestone in the efforts of the global Customs community to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and societies worldwide. It prescribes specific measures to be implemented by WCO Members and the Secretariat in view of supporting the COVID-19 vaccine global distribution effort, which is expected to be the world’s largest and fastest vaccine distribution operation ever.
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11 diciembre 2020
The 40th Meeting of the WCO-UPU Contact Committee was held jointly by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on 3 and 4 December 2020.
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10 diciembre 2020
In the margin of the Council Session, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya signed virtually the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of the Regional Customs Laboratory in Peru with the Head of Peruvian Customs, Ms. Marilú Llerena, on 10 December 2020.
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10 diciembre 2020
The WCO joined forces with the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) to provide assistance to its Member states on implementation of the Harmonized System (HS), in the context of the EU-WCO Programme for the HS in Africa.
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09 diciembre 2020
Tools and Instruments related to integrity are currently accessible to WCO Members. In order to enhance this access, the WCO has rearranged its suites of integrity-related tools and instruments under its Revised Arusha Declaration Implementation Resources webpage.
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09 diciembre 2020
At the invitation of HE. the Director General of Abu Dhabi Customs, the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Authorized Economic Operator Programme (UAEO) Webinar on 7 December 2020.
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09 diciembre 2020
At the request of the Republic of Moldova, the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully delivered a virtual National Workshop on Authorized Economic Operator Mutual Recognition (AEO-MR) from 2 to 4 December 2020, to the Customs Administration of Moldova.
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09 diciembre 2020
The Customs Administration of the Netherlands assisted the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme in the analysis of the data collected during its first iteration of the Customs Integrity Perception Survey (CIPS).
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09 diciembre 2020
he WCO joins the international community to celebrate the International Anti-Corruption Day 2020, led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with the theme “RECOVER with INTEGRITY”.
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09 diciembre 2020
The Nigeria Customs Service and the General Department of Vietnam Customs attended a wrap-up meeting of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)-funded WCO INAMA Project, aiming to strengthen the beneficiary administrations’ Risk Management capacities in the field of Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT).
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09 diciembre 2020
The World Customs Organisation (WCO), through the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC), has completed the initial classification of substances on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Proposed International Nonproprietary Names: List 124 –COVID-19 (special edition)”
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08 diciembre 2020
At the opening of the virtual Regional Seminar on Time Release Study (TRS) jointly organized on 7 December 2020 by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General, welcomed the delegates from the Customs administrations of six Central American countries, namely, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
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07 diciembre 2020
From 1 to 4 December 2020 , the WCO successfully held a Virtual Regional Workshop on Organizational Performance Measurement for the WCO Asia/Pacific Region , in cooperation with the Asia/Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB A/P) and with the support of the CCF Japan.
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07 diciembre 2020
At the invitation of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the AfricaPLC platform, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the 2nd Africa investor (Ai) AfricaPLC-ICC Global eTrade Leaders Summit on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), held virtually on 6 December 2020. It coincided with the 13th Extraordinary Session of the African Union Heads of State and Government of 55 African countries held on 5 December 2020, in preparation for implementation of the AfCFTA on 1 January 2021.
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07 diciembre 2020
In the framework of the newly launched WCO COVID-19 Project funded by the Government of Japan that aims to improve the capacity of Members Customs administrations to address the challenges stemming from COVID-19, other infectious diseases and similar incidents, an Online Regional Workshop on Disaster Management and Supply Chain Continuity for the Asia Pacific Region took place from 30 November to 3 December 2020.
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07 diciembre 2020
From November 30th to December 2nd, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme organized a virtual three-day regional workshop on Advance Rulings (AR), in collaboration with Customs administrations and the private sector in the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas region.
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04 diciembre 2020
The global environment surrounding waste control at borders is evolving. Heightened import restrictions on waste by several countries in the last couple of years have impacted the way the world tackles waste.
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04 diciembre 2020
Consultation with Members on the future WCO strategy continued with the East and Southern Africa (ESA), the Asia/Pacific (A/P) and the West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, through virtual meetings held respectively on 16-17 November, 18-19 November and 30 November-1 December 2020.
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04 diciembre 2020
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, has announced that 2021 will be devoted to the united efforts of the global Customs community to take on a leadership role, use innovative technologies, and collaborate with its stakeholders in bracing for the future, with the slogan “Customs bolstering Recovery, Renewal and Resilience for a sustainable supply chain.”
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04 diciembre 2020
At the invitation of India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, attended celebrations marking the 63rd Founding Day of its Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), held virtually on 4 December 2020.
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03 diciembre 2020
The WCO, through its Environment Programme, as an active partner of the Green Customs Initiative, and working closely with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, and specifically within the Plastic Waste Partnership, supports its members to appropriately respond to the scourge of plastic waste.
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03 diciembre 2020
At the invitation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the High-Level Meeting on Regional Cooperation for Trade and Transport Connectivity in the Age of Pandemics in Asia and the Pacific, held virtually on 2 December 2020. The aim of his intervention was to underline the vital role played by Customs in ensuring regional connectivity during the current emergency situation.
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02 diciembre 2020
Following a request for capacity building in the area of effective revenue assurance, the first Sub Regional Virtual Workshop on Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) for the Pacific Islands was organized by the WCO and the Asia Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building from 23 to 26 November 2020, with the financial support of the Indian Customs Co-operation Fund (CCF/India).
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01 diciembre 2020
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, West African Customs administrations have been making collective efforts in building a pool of experts and developing training materials to be used for more sustainable capacity building in West Africa.
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01 diciembre 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Korea Customs Service (KCS) signed an agreement on the 27 November 2020, on the financial support of the WCO’s e-learning project to improve and upgrade the CLiKC! (Customs Learning and Knowledge Community), the WCO’s e-learning platform. This initiative will lead to strengthened learning capacity for Members.
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01 diciembre 2020
At the end of Operation ASEAN Cosmo, conducted by the Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme in February 2020, the WCO encouraged some of the members involved to strengthen their capacity in combating illicit trafficking of strategic commodities and offered training support.
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01 diciembre 2020
From 26 October to 21 November 2020, the East African Community (EAC) delivered an awareness-raising programme on the role of Customs in combatting the COVID-19 crisis.
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