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28 febrero 2023
The WCO conducted a mission from 28 January to 02 February 2023 to reconfirm the various collaboration areas to further strengthen the Bureau of Customs (BOC) capacity to effectively implement the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
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28 febrero 2023
The 14th session of the WCO Capacity Building Committee (CBC was held from 22 to 24 February 2023), under the theme "Spotlighting the Positive Impact of Customs Capacity Building”.
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27 febrero 2023
At the invitation of Mr. Jalal Al-Qudah, the Director General of Jordan Customs in his capacity as the Vice-Chair for the MENA region, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), participated in the MENA regional meeting of Customs Directors General, held in Cairo on 27 February 2023.
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27 febrero 2023
From 14 to 15 February 2023, the World Customs Organization (WCO) jointly held with the World Health Organization (WHO) a third online workshop on combating the trafficking of substandard and falsified medical products, this time for the WCO’s Americas and Caribbean region.
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24 febrero 2023
The WCO Online Regional Experience-Sharing Workshop on Disruptive Technologies for the North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) Region was held from 20 to 22 February 2023.
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23 febrero 2023
21 February 2023 witnessed the start of the 85th Session of the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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22 febrero 2023
On 16 and 17 February 2023, the WCO welcomed delegates – both in person at WCO Headquarters and online via the Zoom platform - to the 19th Meeting of the Global Information and Intelligence Strategy Project Group (GIIS), which was chaired by Ms. Gabrielle Tramby (Australia).
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22 febrero 2023
A National Workshop on cross-border e-commerce was delivered by the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 13 to 16 February 2023.
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21 febrero 2023
On Wednesday, February 15, the WCO Vice-Chair for the Americas and the Caribbean Region launched the First Forum of the Regional Network of Laboratories through a regional webinar.
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20 febrero 2023
From 17 to 19 February, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), attended the 59th Munich Security Conference (MSC) at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany.
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17 febrero 2023
On 15 February 2023, the World Customs Organization (WCO) held the first symposium on E Commerce and Customs Valuation. During the hybrid event, international organizations, Customs administration, and the private sector discussed the challenges in calculating Customs Value for E Commerce.
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16 febrero 2023
From 31 January to 1 February, 2023, the WCO in partnership with the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) held a regional workshop on advance rulings in Windhoek, Namibia to discuss the state of play in the implementation of advance rulings while reflecting on opportunities for a regional coordination framework.
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16 febrero 2023
The 65th Meeting of the WCO Data Model Projects Team (DMPT) was held successfully, in a hybrid mode, on 2 and 3 February 2023.
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16 febrero 2023
The WCO completed a gender equality organizational assessment for the benefit of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from 6 to 10 of February in Accra, Ghana.
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15 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development, Moldova Institutional and Structural Reforms Activity (USAID MISRA), successfully delivered a national Time Release Study (TRS) Workshop for the Customs Service and stakeholders from the Republic of Moldova.
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15 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO) recently conducted a BACUDA Data Analytics workshop for the Maldives Customs Service with 41 participants from the 30th of January to the 1st of February in Male, Maldives.
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15 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with the support of the Customs Cooperation Fund of Germany (CCF Germany), organized a National Workshop on Customs Valuation for the benefit of Jordan Customs, from 05 to 9 February 2023, at the Regional Training Centre in Amman.
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13 febrero 2023
From 7 to 10 February 2023, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly held two online workshops (one in English and the other in French) for the WCO’s West and Central Africa (WCA) region on combatting the trafficking of substandard and falsified medical products.
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10 febrero 2023
From 30 January to 3 February 2023, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) facilitated a study visit of the Colombian Customs Administration (DIAN) to Brazil, focused on exchanging experiences and best practices with the Customs Administration of Brazil to complement the progress made by the DIAN within the framework of the GTFP, to strengthen their Customs operations and Risk Management and Post Clearance Audit procedures.
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09 febrero 2023
At the invitation of Mr. Suhail Abanmi, Governor of ZAKAT, Tax and Customs Authority of Saudi Arabia, WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 8 and 9 February 2023 to speak at the ZAKAT Tax and Customs Conference 2023.
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09 febrero 2023
On 27 January, 2023, the Eswatini Revenue Services (ERS) held a virtual meeting to officially kick off the development of the new electronic advance ruling system project. The electronic advance ruling system is being developed by the WCO under a partnership between the EU-WCO Programme for Harmonized System in Africa (HS-Africa Programme) funded by the European Union, and the Accelerate Trade Facilitation Programme funded by the United Kingdom’s His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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09 febrero 2023
On 7 and 8 February 2023, the WCO conducted its sixth and final regional consultation on WCO modernization with the Asia/Pacific (A/P) region.
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09 febrero 2023
Upon the request of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a diagnostic review of the current Human Capital Management (HCM) system, leveraging the WCO Framework of Principles and Practices on Customs Professionalism and the WCO Guide to implementing Competency-Based HRM system in a Customs Environment to support the enhancement and effective implementation of a modern and world-class HCM system.
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08 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is profoundly saddened by the news of the devastating and tragic earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria, two of our Members, causing an increasing death toll, the collapse of hundreds of buildings and substantial damage to important infrastructure in both countries.
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07 febrero 2023
From 30 January to 3 February 2023, the WCO, within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), delivered a workshop on performance measurement functions to the Customs Administration of Serbia (CAS).
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07 febrero 2023
The WCO organized an Online Pre-Accreditation Workshop for Customs Modernization Advisors specialized in Integrity Development (CMA-ID), held from 23 to 27 January 2023, for English-speaking participants.
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07 febrero 2023
The WCO, with the financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) - China, conducted an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Programme workshop from 23 to 27 January 2023 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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07 febrero 2023
From 30 January to 1 February, the Nigeria Customs Service hosted the “World Customs Organization multi-regional workshop on the Role of Customs in disaster relief” in Abuja (Nigeria) under the auspices of the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, and the Comptroller General, Mr. Hameed Ibrahim Ali.
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06 febrero 2023
The WCO conducted a WCO Data Model National Workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, from 16 to 20 January 2023 at the request of the State Customs Service (SCS) under the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic, with funding from the Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) of China.
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06 febrero 2023
Solomon Islands deposited with the Belgian Government its instrument of accession to the Convention Establishing a Customs Co-operation Council on 26 January 2023 and thus becomes the 185th Member of the Organization.
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03 febrero 2023
On 24th and 25th January 2023, the World Customs Organization (WCO) hosted, at its Headquarters in Brussels, the 30th Global Regional Intelligence Liaison Offices (RILO) Meeting, marking the 30th Anniversary of the creation of the RILO Network.
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03 febrero 2023
From 24 to 27 January 2023, a Leadership Management Development (LMD) Top Executive Retreat (TER) was held for the Customs Administration of the Republic of Serbia (Carina), under the support of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) funded by the Swiss Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO).
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03 febrero 2023
The 21st Meeting of the Customs Enforcement Network Management Team (CENMaT) of the World Customs Organization (WCO) was held on 26 and 27 January 2023 at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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03 febrero 2023
On 24 and 26 January 2023, a team of officials from the National Service of Customs of Ecuador (SENAE) participated in a virtual training workshop on ‘’Building a Culture of Integrity’’.
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02 febrero 2023
At the invitation of His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, WCO Secretary General Dr. Kunio Mikuriya was received at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on 2 February 2023.
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02 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), organized a Global Conference entitled “Enabling Customs in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations” in Abuja, Nigeria.
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02 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully conducted a 3-day Online Regional Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) for the North Africa of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) Region from 30 January to 1 February 2023. The Workshop was organized with the financial support of the WCO Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) China.
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02 febrero 2023
Two more VR sets of equipment were successfully delivered and installed at the WCO Regional Entities in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the second half of January 2023.
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02 febrero 2023
From 23 to 27 January 2023, the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA) hosted a 5-day workshop on Data Analytics as part of the Light-Touch Intervention (LTI) within the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) framework in a hybrid format with the participation of over 80 customs officials, including the regional Customs offices in the country.
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02 febrero 2023
The World Customs Organization (WCO), under the framework of the EU-WCO Rules of Origin Africa Programme, funded by the European Union (EU) and in partnership with Namibia Revenue Authority (NamRA), held a national training workshop on rules of origin in Windhoek, Namibia.
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01 febrero 2023
The fifth symposium in the WCO Symposia Series on “Visualising a greener HS to support environmentally sustainable trade”, supported by the European Union, was held on 23 January 2023.
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