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30 ноября 2018
On 30 November 2018, the WCO published its Training Handbook on the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage (PITCH). It is a unique specialized tool, aimed at improving the knowledge and know-how of Customs officers deployed in the field, and goes hand in hand with a training programme.
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29 ноября 2018
Based on the mandate by the Policy Commission during its 79th session, the Cruise Ships Working Group held its first meeting on 27 November 2018 at the Headquarters of the World Customs Organization (WCO). It was chaired by Mr. Robert Lake, Customs Attaché at the Embassy of New Zealand in Brussels, and brought together over 40 Brussels-based Customs Attachés as well as representatives from the Cruise Ships industry.
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29 ноября 2018
WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended the debriefing of Operation Demeter IV, held in Shanghai, China on 20 November 2018. This event, organized and hosted by the General Administration of China Customs (GACC), was also attended, among others, by Mr. Carlos Martín-Novellas, Secretary of the Basel Convention, Mr. Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General of International Road Transport Union, and Mr. Erik Solheim, Under Secretary General of United Nations.
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29 ноября 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has delivered a five-day National Workshop on Time Release Study (TRS) in Guatemala from 19 to 23 November 2018.
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28 ноября 2018
Operation DEMETER IV targeted illegal transboundary movements of waste. A total of 75 Customs administrations participated in the joint global operation, the biggest Customs operation targeting illegal trafficking of waste to date, which yielded over 326,133 tonnes and 54,782 pieces of different types of waste.
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28 ноября 2018
African countries seeking to reduce the cost, time and complexity of interregional and international trade in goods will gather for the First African Forum for National Trade Facilitation Committees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 27 to 29 November 2018.
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27 ноября 2018
The 2nd Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop on the WCO Economic Competitiveness Package (ECP) was held at the Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Mombasa, Kenya from 19 to 23 November 2018, under the WCO-ESA Project II.
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27 ноября 2018
The Customs and Indirect Taxation Office (CDDI) of the Togo Revenue Authority (Office Togolais des Recettes – OTR) continues to work on bringing the Customs functions that had been outsourced, including the Customs valuation of imported goods, back in-house.
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27 ноября 2018
At the invitation of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the WCO attended the Final Conference of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Integrated Border Management (IBM) Capacity Building (CP) Project that was held on 20th November in Warsaw, Poland.
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26 ноября 2018
The WCO with the support from the China Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF China) conducted a National Workshop on Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Programme from 19 to 21 November 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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26 ноября 2018
The 28th WCO Asia/Pacific Regional Contact Points Meeting was held from 14 to 16 November 2018 in Jaipur, India.
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26 ноября 2018
At the invitation of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA) of Hungary, the WCO participated in the inaugural ceremony of the WCO Regional Dog Training Centre (RDTC) in Hungary on the occasion of a Sub-Regional Dog Handler Workshop held in Budapest from 14 to 16 November 2018.
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22 ноября 2018
At the invitation of Mr. Jorge Rachid, Secretary of the Receita Federal of Brazil (RBF), WCO Secretary General Dr. Kunio Mikuriya visited Brasilia, Brazil on 20 and 21 November 2018 to join in the celebrations to mark the 50th Anniversary of the RBF.
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22 ноября 2018
The WCO Security Programme conducted a national Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Workshop in Baku, Azerbaijan on 9-12 October 2018.
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22 ноября 2018
WCO has delivered a four day National Workshop on Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) in Astana from 5th to 8th November.
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22 ноября 2018
Between 12 and 16 November, the WCO conducted a train-the-trainers Workshop on Customs valuation for Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) in Maseru, Lesotho.
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21 ноября 2018
The WCO releases the 2017 Illicit Trade Report
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21 ноября 2018
The WCO National Workshop for Lao Customs on border enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) was held in Vientiane, Laos from 12 to 16 November 2018, under the sponsorship of Japanese Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF/Japan).
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21 ноября 2018
On 16th November 2018 the WCO and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) signed an agreement to cooperate on a new “Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs”.
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21 ноября 2018
From 5-9 November 2018, experts from the World Customs Organization (WCO) worked together with their counterparts in the Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCED) to review the organization’s Human Resource Management (HRM) and Integrity approaches.
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20 ноября 2018
At the invitation of Mr. Raju Boddu, Comptroller of Antigua and Barbuda Customs, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General, visited Saint John’s, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, on 16 November 2018.
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20 ноября 2018
Over 40 experts from Customs administrations and postal operators met in Brussels on 15 and 16 November 2018 under the framework of the WCO-UPU Contact Committee to discuss priorities, challenges and potential solutions for enhancing Customs-Post cooperation, in particular the implementation of electronic advance data exchange.
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20 ноября 2018
On 13 and 14 November 2018, the WCO completed its regional consultation process on the Strategic Plan 2019/2022 with the 6th regional workshop held in Jaipur, India, Asia/Pacific (A/P) region.
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20 ноября 2018
A national Workshop on the development of an Advance Ruling System for classification and the AEO programme was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 7 to 9 November 2018.
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19 ноября 2018
At the invitation of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRoque, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya spoke at the Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), the body bringing together CARICOM Trade Ministers and to which the CARICOM Customs Committee reports on matters relating to the WCO’s role and the future cooperation between both Organizations.
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19 ноября 2018
The Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) at its 19th Meeting held from 12 to 13 November 2018 discussed and endorsed the report presented by the Working Group on the Comprehensive review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC) established by the RKC/MC and endorsed by the June 2018 sessions of the Policy Commission and the Council.
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19 ноября 2018
From 11 to 13 November 2018, the UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme and the Israel Customs Directorate organized a seminar and study visit to Haifa port for ten officers from Port Control Units based in Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The seminar featured presentations by Customs and port experts, as well as professional discussions covering a wide range of topics relating to working procedures at the port of Haifa and to Israel Customs as a whole.
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16 ноября 2018
At the invitation of Trinidad and Tobago’s Acting Comptroller of Customs, Ms. Kathy-Ann Matthews, WCO Secretary General Dr. Kunio Mikuriya visited Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 13 and 14 November 2018.
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16 ноября 2018
A regional workshop on transit, held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 13 to 15 November 2018, gathered transit experts from Member Customs Administrations from East and South-East Europe, Central Asia and four Members of the Asia-Pacific region – China, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan.
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15 ноября 2018
WCO is again organising the Rights Holders Consultative Group (RHCG) meeting
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15 ноября 2018
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, announced on 8 November 2018 that 2019 will be devoted to the swift and smooth cross-border movement of goods, people and means of transport, with the slogan “SMART borders for seamless Trade, Travel and Transport.”
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15 ноября 2018
The WCO is pleased to announce that the Study Report on Illicit Financial Flows via Trade Mis-invoicing (IFFs) is now available for public consultation.
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14 ноября 2018
As part of Capacity Building, the WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop from 29th October to 9th November 2018 for 20 senior managers of the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA).
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14 ноября 2018
The 16th Meeting of the Heads of Asia/Pacific WCO Regional Training Centres (RTCs) was held at the Shanghai Customs College (SCC) on 24-25 October 2018.
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13 ноября 2018
On 9 November 2018 the WCO hosted the Global Conference on the Comprehensive Review of the RKC which gathered close to 150 experts from Member Customs administrations, partner international organizations, regional organizations, industry associations, the private sector, development partners and academia.
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13 ноября 2018
Over 140 delegates from Customs, the private sector, international organizations and academia met for the 221st/222nd Sessions of the Permanent Technical Committee held from 5 to 8 November 2018 in Brussels, to discuss numerous topics pertaining to Customs procedures and facilitation, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Ian Saunders (US).
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12 ноября 2018
The Heads of the Regional Intelligence Liaison Offices (RILOs) for Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) and Western Europe (WE) took part in the kick-off meeting of the Pan-European Network of Customs Practitioners (PEN-CP) from 24 to 26 October 2018.
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12 ноября 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) held its first Global Integrity Experts Meeting from 23-26 October 2018, with funding support from the China Customs Cooperation Fund.
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12 ноября 2018
On 7 November 2018, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya received the Instrument of accession of Georgia to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) from Her Excellency Ms. Natalie Sabanadze, Ambassador and Head of the Mission of Georgia to the European Union.
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09 ноября 2018
Consultation with Members on the new Strategic Plan continued with the North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) region. Jordan Customs hosted the fifth regional workshop, held in Amman, Jordan, on 5 November 2018.
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09 ноября 2018
Following a successful combined TFA scoping, Programme planning and Post Clearance Audit (PCA) diagnostic mission conducted in Belize from 22-26 October, the WCO is pleased to welcome the Belize Customs and Excise Department as one of the newest beneficiaries of the tailor-made track of the Mercator Programme.
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09 ноября 2018
In the context of a comprehensive organizational development programme by the Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCED), a national workshop on the Harmonized System (HS) was conducted by the WCO in Nassau, from 15 to 19 October 2018.
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09 ноября 2018
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, representatives from Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) visited Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) from 23 to 26 October 2018 for a benchmarking study on Risk Management.
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09 ноября 2018
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project and the support of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), a sub- regional workshop on Customs valuation under the Master Trainers Programme for Southern African countries was held in Lusaka, Zambia from 29 October to 2 November 2018.
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09 ноября 2018
Building on the achievements recorded and lessons learned in the area of IT connectivity by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA) in the context of the WCO-SACU Connect project funded by Sweden, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat held a joint meeting of SADC Heads of Customs.
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09 ноября 2018
Following the recommendation stated in the Mercator Programme Diagnostic Report for Guyana, the WCO conducted a five- day diagnostic mission on Post Clearance Audit (PCA) from 29 October to 2 November 2018 in Georgetown, Guyana.
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09 ноября 2018
The 17th RILO CIS NCP Meeting was held in Cholpon Ata (Kyrgyz Republic) on 10th of September 2018.
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07 ноября 2018
The fourth regional workshop on the WCO Strategic Plan 2019/2022 took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 29 and 30 October 2018. On this occasion, the WCO engaged with the West and Central Africa (WCA) region as a continuation of the consultation process approved by the WCO Council at its June 2018 Session.
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07 ноября 2018
The 75th Session of the Information Management Sub-Committee (IMSC) was held on 29 and 30 October 2018.
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05 ноября 2018
The Secretary General of the WCO, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya met with the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Mr. Kitack Lim at IMO headquarters in London, United Kingdom on 2 November 2018. They agreed on further cooperation between the two organizations on a range of areas, including data sharing, technology, security and facilitation.
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05 ноября 2018
At the request of the Namibia Customs & Excise Directorate (NCE), the WCO conducted a diagnostic support mission focused on the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). The mission took place from 22nd to 26th October 2018 in Windhoek, Namibia under the framework of WCO Mercator Program and with the financial support of the Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF), Korea.
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02 ноября 2018
At the invitation of the Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya spoke at Global Trade 2018 Conference, held at the Chatham House in London, United Kingdom on 1 November 2018, the theme “Protectionism, power dynamics and changing priorities”.
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02 ноября 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in conjunction with the “WCO ESA Project II” and the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA), held a 2nd Workshop of the Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) Programme for the French‑speaking trainers of the ESA Region from 1 to 5 October 2018 in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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