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31 marzo 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program (Ozone Action) and the Basel Convention Secretariat, has conducted virtual Workshops for the Eswatini Revenue Service (ERS) and the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) during February and March 2022 respectively, to raise awareness on the Basel Convention and the Montreal Protocol Agreements.
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31 marzo 2022
On 7 March 2022, a meeting was held between the Intendent of the Customs Administration of Guatemala (SAT) and WCO Vice-Chair to the Americas and the Caribbean, Mr. Werner Ovalle, and the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels.
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31 marzo 2022
The SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) team undertook a mission to the Customs Administration of Colombia (DIAN, for its Spanish acronym) from 22-24 March 2022, with the aim to follow-up on the progress achieved by DIAN within the GTFP, review the scheduled activities for the years 2022 and 2023, as well as review and coordinate with the Colombian National Trade Facilitation Committee to identify potential areas for further support.
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31 marzo 2022
From 15 to 17 March 2022, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) team deployed a follow-up mission to the Customs Administration of Bolivia, aiming to verify the progress achieved in the implementation of the Programme.
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30 marzo 2022
29 March – The WCO and the World Trade Organization (WTO) held a webinar to launch their joint publication on Customs use of advance technologies.
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30 marzo 2022
As part of its multi-year and strategic Mercator collaboration with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) towards comprehensive implementation of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the WCO conducted a mission to take stock of and monitor activities rendered under the framework of by the United Kingdom’s Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) supported Trade Facilitation Capacity Building Programme.
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29 marzo 2022
Under the framework of the by the United Kingdom’s Her Majesty’s Customs & Revenue (HMRC) Trade Facilitation Capacity Building Programme, the WCO delivered in-country support to the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) to establish an Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) programme that would be aligned with the SAFE Framework of Standards and Article 7.7 of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement.
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28 marzo 2022
On 17th and 18th March 2022, a total of eleven officers from Belgium Customs visited the WCO and experienced the recently installed Virtual Reality (VR) assisted training programme funded by CCF-Korea.
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28 marzo 2022
The WCO successfully organized a national strategic orientation workshop for the senior management of the Libyan Customs Authority.
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25 marzo 2022
On 25 March 2022, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, met with the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Ambassadors at WCO Headquarters.
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24 marzo 2022
On 22 and 23 March 2022, at the invitation of Mr. Genti Gazheli, the Director General of Albania Customs, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) visited Tirana, Albania, to discuss Customs modernization and capacity building requirements.
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24 marzo 2022
Twenty-nine participants from different units within the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova recently attended a World Customs Organization (WCO) National Training Workshop aimed at exploring the many facets of Customs valuation.
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23 marzo 2022
Recognizing the strategic importance of human capital in the process of improving operational efficiency, revenue collection, trade facilitation and transparency, the General Directorate of Customs and Excise of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GDCE-DRC) attaches particular importance to the design and the effective implementation of a modern and competency-based HRM system. As part of the activities of the agreed HRM modernization roadmap previously developed, the WCO successfully delivered a 10 days expert advisory mission from March 07 -18, 2022 in Kinshasa, DRC.
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22 marzo 2022
On 21 March 2022, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya and the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Ms. Jagjit Pavadia, issued a joint letter to the WCO Membership. The letter draws Members’ attention to the simplified control procedures that can be applied in acute emergencies to the export, transportation and provision of medicines containing internationally controlled substances.
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22 marzo 2022
Through the HMRC-WCO-UNCTAD Trade Facilitation Capacity Building Programme supported by the United Kingdom, the WCO conducted a mission to the Gambia from 7 to 11 March 2022 to further strengthen capacity within GRA and other border agencies to implement an Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme and Coordinated Border Management (CBM) in the Gambia.
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18 marzo 2022
In coordination with the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation’s on-going initiative to support Malagasy Customs with the establishment of its Advance Ruling mechanism, the World Customs Organization delivered a capacity-building workshop on the Harmonized System and commodity classification from 7 to 11 March 2022 in Antananarivo. The workshop was sponsored by the EU-WCO Programme for Harmonized System in Africa (HS-Africa Programme).
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18 marzo 2022
The COLIBRI Project, implemented by the WCO and funded by the European Union (EU), organized its first regional training event on the use of the Geoportal and the CENcomm for French-speaking beneficiary countries in West Africa. This train-the-trainer course took place in Dakar, Senegal, from 28 February to 4 March 2022.
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17 marzo 2022
The 28th Meeting of the Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 7 to 11 March 2022. Over 180 Participants representing about 74 Contracting Parties to the RKC and 15 Observers joined the hybrid Meeting that was held both virtually via the KUDO platform and in-person at WCO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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16 marzo 2022
On 16 March 2022, the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO) issued a dedicated Secretariat Note to reiterate the important role that Customs plays in humanitarian crises, as well as to remind Member Customs administrations of the available WCO instruments, tools and guidance material and the measures they can implement with regard to the clearance of humanitarian supplies, including medicines and medical equipment.
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15 marzo 2022
From 7 to 9 March 2022, the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, made an official visit to Washington DC, United States.
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15 marzo 2022
After the success of the first edition organised for the Europe region, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) hosted a WCO Sub-regional Virtual Workshop on Integrity for the Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas and Caribbean region, from 7 to 9 March 2022.
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14 marzo 2022
From 2 to 3 March 2022, a World Customs Organization (WCO) sub-regional workshop on combating counterfeiting and piracy was held in Skopje, North Macedonia.
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14 marzo 2022
The Master Trainer Programme or MTP is a programme conducted under the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project.
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10 marzo 2022
On 10 March 2022, during the ongoing 28th Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee’s Meeting, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), in his capacity as the depositary of the Convention, received the Instrument of Accession of the Republic of Guatemala to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) from Mr. Marco Livio Diaz Reyes, the Superintendent of Tax Administration of Guatemala (SAT) in the presence of H.E Mr. José Gabriel Lambour Peñalonzo, Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala to the Kingdom of Belgium and Mr. Werner Ovalle, the Director General of Guatemala Customs, at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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09 marzo 2022
On 9 March 2022, during the ongoing 28th Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee’s Meeting, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), in his capacity as the depositary of the Convention, received the Instrument of Accession of the Union of Comoros to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) from H.E Mr. Mohamed Chatur BADAOUI, Ambassador of the Union of the Comoros to the Kingdom of Belgium, at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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09 marzo 2022
The World Customs Organization’s (WCO) Secretariat would like to express its deep sadness and grave concern with regard to the continued suffering, devastation and loss of life going on in Ukraine.
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09 marzo 2022
A global operation targeting illicit trafficking in cultural goods has led to 52 arrests and the seizure of 9,408 cultural artefacts across the world.
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08 marzo 2022
On 8 March, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community in celebrating International Women’s Day 2022, focusing on the United Nations’ theme of “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”, which highlights the vital link between gender, social equity and climate change, and stresses that without the inclusion of half of the world's population, it is unlikely that solutions for a sustainable planet will be realized.
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07 marzo 2022
On 7 March 2022, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization and Mr. Jaehyeon Lim, the Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service (KCS) signed a joint declaration to increase the contribution of the KCS to the WCO’s Language Fund.
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07 marzo 2022
Five Customs administrations in East Africa, namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, organized its Regional Joint Coordinating Committee (RJCC) meeting of the “Project on Capacity Development for Trade Facilitation and Border Control in East Africa (TF & BC Project)” virtually on 25 February 2022.
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04 marzo 2022
Building on the success of previous years and recognizing the importance of facilitating trade to tackle COVID-19, the United Kingdom (UK) announced today a three year extension of its partnership between Her Majesty’s Customs & Revenue (HMRC) with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on trade facilitation capacity building.
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04 marzo 2022
At the joint invitation of Mr. Abdulaziz Kamilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Ms. Helga Maria Schmid, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), and Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), participated through a video message in the High-Level International Conference on “Regional cooperation of Central Asian countries within the framework of the Joint Action Plan for the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy” held in a hybrid format on 3 and 4 March 2022 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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04 marzo 2022
On 4 March 2022, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Mr. Masatsugu Asakawa, the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had an online meeting to discuss and reaffirm their commitment to strengthening the cooperation between the two organizations in the Asia and Pacific region.
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04 marzo 2022
From 23 to 25 February 2022, the Algerian Customs hosted a national workshop on Customs laboratories, which was delivered within the framework of the EU-WCO Programme for the Harmonized System in Africa (HS-Africa Programme), funded by the European Union.
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04 marzo 2022
On 15 February 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully held its 9th series of webinars aimed at improving Customs administrations’ awareness of counterfeit COVID-19-related goods, in collaboration with high-level representatives from Novavax.
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04 marzo 2022
From 21 to 25 February 2022, the WCO conducted a Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) training and diagnostic mission to Gambia.
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03 marzo 2022
On 3 March 2022, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), received Mr. Masahiko Metoki, Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Secretary General Mikuriya congratulated Director General Metoki on commencing his service as the 17th Director General of the UPU from January 2022, and shared his expectations for enhanced cooperation between the two organizations.
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03 marzo 2022
In line with the WCO's recognition of data analytics and machine learning as an integral part of the future of customs, The WCO BACUDA project was launched in September 2019 as a collaborative research platform focused on data analytics.
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03 marzo 2022
On 3rd March, the World Customs Organization (WCO) joins the international community in celebrating World Wildlife Day to raise awareness on the conservation status of some of the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora, and drive discussions towards imagining and implementing solutions to preserve them. On this occasion, the WCO reiterates its pledge to protect wildlife and its continuing support to its partner organization - the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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02 marzo 2022
On 1 and 2 March 2022, at the invitation of Mr. Yankuba Darboe, the Commissioner General of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), visited Banjul, Gambia to exchange views on the progress regarding Customs reform and meet with political leaders.
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01 marzo 2022
The 13th session of the WCO Capacity Building Committee (CBC), under the theme "Towards a Thoughtful Adaptation in Customs: Building Successful Organizations in the “New Normal,” was held in hybrid format from 21 to 23 February 2022.
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