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21 十二月 2017
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, and the Secretary General of FIDI Aisbl, Mr. Jesse van Sas, signed on 20 December 2017 a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels to enhance cooperation to achieve mutual benefits, including a balance between security and facilitation.
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21 十二月 2017
Operation COCAIR VI took place from 9 to 17 December 2017, bringing together the enforcement services of airports in some thirty countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. The main objective of the Operation was to intercept illicit consignments of cocaine by air from South America bound to Europe, either directly or via transit zones in Africa.
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21 十二月 2017
The WCO participated in the Customs-Tax Conference on “Innovation, Digitalization, Knowledge Management” in Budapest, Hungary on 22 and 23 November 2017.
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19 十二月 2017
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, and the Secretary General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), H.E. Dr. Abdullatif Bin Rashid Alzayani, signed on Friday 15 December 2017 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels to enhance cooperation based on mutual support.
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19 十二月 2017
The challenges faced by Customs in Central America to perform their functions are similar in form, although different in impact and level of occurrence.
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18 十二月 2017
More than 50 representatives from nine Customs administrations in the MENA Region participated in a WCO Regional Workshop on Organizational Performance Measurement from 3 to 7 December 2017. The Workshop was hosted by Qatar Customs and held in Doha, Qatar.
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18 十二月 2017
On 14 December 2017 during the WCO Council session, the Ambassador of the Republic of the Congo to the Benelux countries and the European Union, His Excellency Léon Raphaël Mokoko, deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention). He was accompanied at the ceremony by the Director General of Customs of the Republic of the Congo, Mr. Jean-Alfred Onanga.
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15 十二月 2017
Under the auspices of WCO-SACU Connect Project financed by Sweden, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)’s Member States convened for a workshop which took place from the 1st to the 3rd November 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa to successfully finalize the development of Training Modules for the SACU Preferred Trader Programme (PTP) Core Competencies.
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15 十二月 2017
The WCO participated in an important regional meeting held in Banjul, Gambia 4-8 December to discuss ways to fight corruption and enhance Integrity among the Customs authorities in the West Africa region.
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15 十二月 2017
Following development of new Project Management training material for members of the World Customs Organization (WCO), funded initially by Sweden’s WACAM Project, this 5-day training course was delivered on a national level during two simultaneously run but separate workshops in Vietnam and Tanzania.
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15 十二月 2017
The WCO worked with counterparts in Timor-Leste Customs Service to conduct an assessment to assist TLCS with migration from HS 2012 to HS 2017 for Classification.
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15 十二月 2017
At the request of Nicaragua Customs Administration the WCO organized a 5 day workshop on the Time Release Study (TRS) methodology.
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15 十二月 2017
Following a request of the Burundi Revenue Authority (OBR) the World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a diagnostic mission on Single Window in Bujumbura and two Border Crossing Posts (BCP) in Burundi from 20 to 24 November 2017.
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15 十二月 2017
From 5 to 8 December 2017, the WCO conducted a Workshop on Single Window implementation in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, hosted by Argentina Customs and the Single Window Team from the Secretary of Commerce in the Ministry of Production.
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15 十二月 2017
Thirty two representatives from 25 Customs administrations participated in the WCO Asia/Pacific Regional Workshop on Risk Management and Post Seizure Analysis held from 4 to 8 December 2017.
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14 十二月 2017
Ricardo Treviño Chapa, the current Administrator General of Mexico Customs, was elected Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) on 14 December 2017. He will take up his post at the Secretariat on 1 January 2018.
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14 十二月 2017
The World Customs Organization (WCO), through financial support from the Eurocustoms fund, delivered a National Workshop on Risk Management for the Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ITA BiH).
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13 十二月 2017
During the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) in Buenos Aires, to which the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, was invited as a Special Guest, the WCO and the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) of Argentina jointly organized a round table session on "E-Commerce: Game changer for Customs, Trade and Consumers" at the AFIP building on 11 December 2017.
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13 十二月 2017
Under the auspices of the WCO-WACAM Project financed by Sweden, a scoping and assistance mission was carried out in Niamey from 27 to 30 November 2017.
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12 十二月 2017
With the sponsorship of the Japanese Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF Japan) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a WCO National Seminar on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy was held by the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia in Phnom Penh from 4 to 6 December 2017.
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12 十二月 2017
Under the sponsorship of China Customs, and with the support of Fiji Customs and the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building for the Asia/Pacific region (ROCB A/P), a WCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for Oceania Members was held in Suva, Fiji from 4 to 8 December 2017.
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11 十二月 2017
The World Customs Organisation (WCO) with the support of Comoros Customs Administration organized a diagnostic mission from 27 November to 1 December 2017, to assist Comoros in evaluating the feasibility for Single Window implementation.
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11 十二月 2017
In the framework of the WCO-WACAM Project, funded by the government of Sweden, the Gambia Revenue Authority benefited from a “training of trainers” (ToT) workshop from 05 to 08 December 2017 in Banjul. At this occasion, the WCO was able to pilot its new state-of-the-art competency-based “ToT” workshop material in English, which was developed under the WCO-WACAM Project.
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08 十二月 2017
In January 2017, Cameroon Customs took part in the first Regional Workshop on Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) organized for the 23 Customs administrations of the West and Central Africa (WCA) region.
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07 十二月 2017
The WCO Policy Commission (PC) has seized the momentum garnered in the domain of electronic commerce and has unanimously adopted the Luxor Resolution.
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07 十二月 2017
The WCO organized a study tour for a small project team from the Customs Administration of Palestine to visit the Moroccan Customs Administration and learn from their experiences in the establishment and management of bonded warehouses.
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06 十二月 2017
The World Customs Organization (WCO) responded positively to the request for technical assistance from the Guinean Directorate General of Customs (DGD), agreeing to help it in its move to bring the Customs functions that had been outsourced to a private goods inspection company back in-house.
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05 十二月 2017
At the request of the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE), the WCO conducted a mission with the aim of strengthening the Customs’ infrastructure for Valuation and Origin controls in Phnom Penh between 27 November and 1 December.
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05 十二月 2017
A Regional Workshop for the Americas and Caribbean Region on AEO / MRA was hosted by Costa Rica Customs from 27 November to 1 December 2017 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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05 十二月 2017
The second meeting of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Capacity Building in the Americas and the Caribbean region (AMS) was held from 21 to 23 November 2017 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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05 十二月 2017
Following the evaluation of the delivery of tailor-made track of the Mercator Programme for Palestine in July 2017, an updated MERCATOR Implementation Plan for 2017-2020 was developed for Palestine.
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02 十二月 2017
At the request of the National Customs Service of Chile (SNA), the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a mission, held from 22 November to 1 December 2017 with the objective of providing assistance to develop their strategic plan for the 2018-2022 period.
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01 十二月 2017
From 20 to 29 October 2017, Guinean Customs, the Air and Border Police, the Central Drug Enforcement Bureau, and the Water and Forests Gendarmerie have combined their efforts by participating to this first-ever enhanced enforcement operation targeting drug trafficking, trafficking of chemical precursors, money smuggling, trafficking in firearms and ammunition, and trafficking in wild species of fauna and flora.
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01 十二月 2017
In November 2017, the WCO provided strategic support to the Antigua and Barbuda Customs and Excise Department under the Mercator Programme.
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01 十二月 2017
The WCO was invited by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) from October 23-26 to visit the National Targeting Centre in Kampala, and visit the Customs passenger processing facilities at Entebbe International Airport.
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01 十二月 2017
Following the Mercator Implementation plan for Sierra Leone, and with generous funding from the Government of the United Kingdom through Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the WCO successfully delivered a Leadership Management Development (LMD) workshop for the National Revenue Authority (NRA).
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01 十二月 2017
At the request of Belgian Customs, 30 French-speaking Customs trainees from countries of the West and Central Africa Region as well as from Djibouti and the Comoros, training at the Belgian Customs School, visited the WCO Secretariat on 27 and 28 November 2017.
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