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31 января 2022
On 27 January 2022, representatives of the WCO, the AfCFTA Secretariat and the European Commission held a virtual meeting to review the state of play in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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31 января 2022
On 27 and 28 January, the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme conducted it very first workshop on the key role played by the training function as a vehicle to promote integrity.
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31 января 2022
From 24 to 28 January 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) delivered an Online Regional Workshop on Cross-Border E-Commerce for the WCO Europe region.
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31 января 2022
On 28 and 30 January 2022, at the invitation of the Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, Mr. Safar Mehdiyev, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, attended a celebration in Baku to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Azerbaijan Customs Service.
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31 января 2022
On International Customs Day (26 January), the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service officially opened its Air Cargo Control Unit (ACCU) at Nadi International Airport.
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31 января 2022
As part of its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Strategy 2020, from 24 to 28 January 2022 the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully conducted a Regional Accreditation Workshop in the WCO West and Central Africa (WCA) region for Technical Operational Advisers (TOAs) in the IPR field. The Workshop, held in Lomé (Togo), was made possible thanks to financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan (CCF/Japan).
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28 января 2022
Equatorial Guinea deposited with the Belgian Government its instrument of accession to the Convention Establishing a Customs Co-operation Council on 22 December 2021 and became the 184th Member of the Organization.
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28 января 2022
On 26 January 2022, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) participated in a hybrid event hosted by China Customs to celebrate the International Customs Day (ICD). The Vice-Minister Wang Lingjun of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) and other GACC representatives attended the celebration on site. Secretary General Mikuriya, Representatives from other Government bodies and Customs Attachés from nearly 30 countries and regions, as well as Chinese Customs officers from regional Customs districts joined the event virtually.
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28 января 2022
As part of the COLIBRI Project, implemented by the WCO and financed by the European Union (EU), a third face-to-face training course was organized in Dakar, Senegal, for the benefit of national administrations with powers and responsibilities in the field of general aviation (GA) monitoring and control.
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28 января 2022
25 January 2022 marked the official ending of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP)’s Light-Touch Intervention in Guatemala.
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28 января 2022
As part of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Customs Operational Practices for Enforcement and Seizures (COPES) Programme, the WCO in partnership with Pakistan Customs has launched the Customs Enforcement Curriculum for Assistant Collectors (CECAC) Project, aiming at assisting Pakistan Customs in building its capacity to enhance security and combat serious crime, particularly by preparing Pakistan’s future senior managers to address the challenges ahead.
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28 января 2022
The e-learning course titled Advancing Gender Equality in Customs has been translated into Spanish and Russian.
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28 января 2022
On 25 January 2022 a Russian language online webinar on “Identifying Military Goods at the Border” was delivered by the Strategic Trade Control (STCE) Programme and the Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Project of the WCO.
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28 января 2022
At the invitation of the CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group, Dr. Frank Appel, the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the Go Trade Summit held at the DHL Innovation Centre, Bonn, Germany on 27 January 2022.
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27 января 2022
The WCO and SKKU launched the Data Analytics Scholarship Programme on Monday, 24th January 2022, with the financial support of CCF-Korea as part of the BACUDA project of the WCO Capacity Building Directorate.
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27 января 2022
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, the Second Working Group Activity (sub-regional workshop) of the Master Trainers Programme (MTP) on Rules of Origin (RoO) was held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, from 17 to 21 January 2022, by a kind host of Cote d’Ivoire Customs, gathering the same participants from the six countries in West Africa who had participated in the first sub-regional workshop held virtually in November 2021.
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27 января 2022
Following the implementation of the 2022 edition of the Harmonized System (HS) in Algeria on 1 January 2022, the Algerian General Directorate of Customs (DGD) organized two information days on the HS amendments (HS 2022).
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26 января 2022
On 26 January, the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO) celebrated the International Customs Day 2022.
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26 января 2022
Today, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, announced that this year’s International Customs Day (ICD), which is marked annually on 26 January, will be celebrated under the slogan: “Scaling up Customs Digital Transformation by Embracing a Data Culture and Building a Data Ecosystem”. The global Customs community is invited to implement the theme throughout this year and beyond, and reflect on how best to operate in a fully digital environment and create an operating model that captures and exploits data from across the trade ecosystem.
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26 января 2022
At the invitation of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), the Secretary General of the WCO, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the EU Working Party on Customs Union on 25 January 2022 to present the draft WCO Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and the Organization’s Data Strategy in support of its theme for this year.
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25 января 2022
On 18 and 19 January 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully held its 8th series of webinars aimed at improving Customs administrations’ awareness of counterfeit COVID-19-related goods, in collaboration with high-level representatives from the Pfizer biopharmaceutical company.
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24 января 2022
The WCO Virtual Working Group (VWG) on Gender Equality & Diversity (GED) met through an online meeting on the 18th of January to exchange experiences on GED related training for Customs.
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24 января 2022
At the request of the Chairman of Tajikistan Customs service (TCS) the WCO conducted a diagnostic support mission on the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) from 10 to 20 of January 2022 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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24 января 2022
The Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme starts the new year with a virtual national training for the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS), from 18 to 21 January 2022.
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24 января 2022
From 17 to 21 January 2022, the WCO COVID-19 Project held an in-person workshop for Comoros Customs to improve its ability to manage the risks stemming from natural disasters and other disruptive events.
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24 января 2022
The WCO East and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) Regional Experience-Sharing Workshop on Disruptive Technologies was held from 17 to 19 January 2022.
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21 января 2022
On 18 January 2022, the Federal Administration of Public Revenue of the Argentine Republic (AFIP), represented by the Director General of Customs, Ms. Silvia Brunilda Traverso, and the World Customs Organization (WCO), represented by its Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, completed the signing process for a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a WCO Regional Dog Training Centre (RDTC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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20 января 2022
From 10 to 13 January 2022, about 20 Tunisian Customs officers took part in the first remote workshop of the year within the framework of the WCO Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme.
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19 января 2022
On 17 January 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the General Authority of Customs (GAC) of Qatar participated in an online ceremony to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of a WCO Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Doha, Qatar.
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18 января 2022
From 10 to 12 January 2022 the World Customs Organization (WCO) held a virtual national training for participants of the Indonesian Directorate General of Customs and Excise.
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14 января 2022
The WCO has updated the Customs Laboratory Guide (CLG) to reflect the HS 2022 edition.
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12 января 2022
On 11 January 2022, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, met with the Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo to discuss the WCO’s future activities.
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04 января 2022
The World Customs Organization organised an online training workshop on Customs valuation for the National Customs Service (SENAE) of the Republic of Ecuador. The workshop was held from 6 and 10 December 2021 and was facilitated by Mr. Guzman Manes, WCO Accredited Trainer on Customs Valuation from Uruguay.
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04 января 2022
Human resource management and development (HRMD) are among the top priorities for the sustainable development of the Customs Service of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. HRMD for the Tajikistan Customs Service (TCS) are hugely important to senior members of the country’s leadership.
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04 января 2022
On 29 December 2021, the Federal Customs Commission of Ethiopia (ECC) notified the WCO Secretary General that the new edition of the Harmonized System (HS 2022) would enter into force in the country on 1 January 2022.
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04 января 2022
RILO ECE has published another issue of Herald magazine. This issue begins with introduction of three new members of RILO ECE’s family - two National Contact Point officers from Latvia and Moldova and new member of RILO ECE HQ in Warsaw.
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04 января 2022
RILO ECE has published annual report for the year 2020. The report has been created in a form of comparative analysis of the years 2019-2020.
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03 января 2022
Customs data plays a key role in supporting the operational efficiency of Customs administrations through effective management of Customs risks and improved facilitation in the clearance of legitimate trade.
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03 января 2022
20th Integrity Newsletter
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