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30 六月 2018
Directors General of Customs attending the annual sessions of the Council of the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels (Belgium) re-elected the incumbent Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, for a further five-year term with effect from 1 January 2019.
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30 六月 2018
The 132nd Annual Session of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Council – the Organization’s highest decision-making body – took place in Brussels, Belgium from 28 to 30 June 2018 under the direction and guidance of the Chairperson, Mr. Enrique Canon, Director General of Uruguay Customs, and with the participation of the Directors General of Customs representing the WCO’s Members.
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28 六月 2018
The Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) met for its 44th session at the WCO headquarters on 25 and 26 June with the participation of delegates from 14 PSCG members. The group reviewed ongoing work, discussed future activities and prepared for the PSCG Dialogue with the WCO Policy Commission Members on the 27th June 2018.
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28 六月 2018
A new initiative that will enable micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to benefit from international trade opportunities was unveiled on 28 June 2018 by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Trade Centre (ITC). Developed to enable MSMEs to benefit from duty savings under free trade agreements, the ITC-WCO Rules of Origin Facilitator will also ensure that businesses in developing countries can take greater advantage of preferential trade arrangements.
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26 六月 2018
Further to the WCO’s continued commitment to mitigate Illegal Wildlife Trade, a range of Train the Trainer and Accreditation Workshops is conducted under the auspices of the Inama project.
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22 六月 2018
The WCO has published the 86th edition of WCO News, the Organization’s flagship magazine aimed at the Customs community, which provides a selection of informative articles that touch the international Customs and trade landscape.
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21 六月 2018
Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), and Dr. Jingyuan Xia, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention, signed an agreement to promote cooperation on matters of common interest to help facilitate the international trade of plants and plant products in a safe and efficient manner at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels on 19 June 2018.
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21 六月 2018
A new online course on the 2017 Edition of the Harmonized System (HS) has been released by the WCO.
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21 六月 2018
The WCO has organized a regional workshop on its Compliance and Enforcement Package (CEP) for administrations in the Asia/Pacific region.
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21 六月 2018
The WCO is pleased to announce that dedicated TFA e-learning modules on Risk Management, Post Clearance Audit, Cross Border Management and the Revised Kyoto Convention has been translated into Arabic and are now accessible on the CLiKC! Platform.
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20 六月 2018
An international operation against the illegal trade in wildlife and timber has seen hundreds of seizures worldwide as well as suspects arrested.
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19 六月 2018
As part of the WCO Capacity Building delivery and support to its Members, the Seychelles Revenue Commission (SRC) benefitted from a Customs-specific training in project and change management which took place on 11 – 15 June 2018 in Victoria, Mahe.
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19 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization with the support of Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan delivered a four-day “Workshop on Improving X-Ray images analysis capabilities” to the benefit of the State Customs Service of Azerbaijan Republic (SCC) at the Regional Office of Capacity Building in Baku from 11 to 14 June 2018.
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19 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization with the support by Customs Cooperation Fund of Germany delivered a three-day SAFE AEO Workshop to the benefit of the State Customs Service of Azerbaijan Republic (SCC) at the WCO European Regional Office of Capacity Building in Baku from 11 to 13 June 2018.
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19 六月 2018
The WCO-SACU Connect Project funded by Sweden supports the SACU region in implementing customs system interconnectivity to facilitate real-time customs to customs information exchange.
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15 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a Risk Management (RM) Workshop focused on risk assessment and selectivity in Montenegro. The Workshop took place from 28 May to 1 June 2018 in Podgorica, Montenegro, and was attended by 13 Customs officials from the Intelligence Division, Customs Post-Clearance Audit Unit and Law Enforcement, with financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund Japan (CCF/Japan).
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14 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) with the support of Customs Cooperation Fund of Korea (CCF Korea) organized a joint Customs-Post Workshop for Armenia. The Joint Workshop was attended by over 30 participants from Armenian Customs and HayPost.
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13 六月 2018
A WCO Accreditation Workshop for Expert Trainers on Customs Valuation was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 4 to 8 June 2018, for English-speaking Customs administrations in the WCO’s Europe Region.
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12 六月 2018
On 11 June 2018, on the occasion of the 20th Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) Annual Conference held in Melbourne (Australia) and attended by the WCO Secretary General, Kiribati’s Minister of Justice, representing his Government, deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC).
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12 六月 2018
At the invitation of the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 20th OCO Annual Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia on 11 June 2018. The OCO comprises 23 Customs administrations from the Pacific region, eight of which are WCO Members.
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12 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) conducted a joint mission in Jamaica from 24 to 30 May 2018. The mission aimed at developing Jamaica’s expertise in data analytics capacities in the ASYCUDA Performance Measurement (ASYPM) module.
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12 六月 2018
The 2018 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition drew to a close on 8 June 2018 with a summary of the outcomes of the preceding two-and-a-half days of discussions on the latest IT developments in Customs and border management. The Conference welcomed 600 delegates from 75 countries, was supported by 32 sponsors and exhibitors and brought together 70 speakers who took the floor for 11 keynote addresses and 18 plenary and TechTalk sessions.
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12 六月 2018
An agreement signed between the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCD) in December 2017, activated the implementation of a comprehensive organizational development and training programme.
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12 六月 2018
From 28 May to 1 June 2018, the WCO conducted a Pre-Accreditation Workshop on the Single Window Environment at the WCO Regional Training Centre in Port Louis (Mauritius), with the support of the Finnish ESA Project (Phase II).
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11 六月 2018
With a view to implementing an effective “Blue Channel” for post-clearance audit (PCA), in accordance with the WCO PCA Guidelines and for trade facilitation purposes through enhanced risk management (RM) capacities based on the requirements of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the State Revenue Committee of Armenia requested WCO support in organizing a joint RM and PCA diagnostic mission.
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08 六月 2018
A WCO Revenue Package national Workshop, funded by CCF China, was held in Havana, Cuba, from 28 May to 1 June 2018. Twenty Customs officials worked intensively during the Workshop, which was facilitated by one expert from the WCO Secretariat and one expert from Spanish Customs.
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08 六月 2018
The WCO organized a Regional Workshop on the WCO Data Model for Americas and Caribbean (AME Region) in Lima, Peru with the financial support from the Customs Administration of Japan.
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07 六月 2018
On 6 June, the WCO IT Conference and Exhibition (WCO ITC) 2018 opened its doors to more than 500 delegates from over 75 countries from all over the world in Lima, Peru. This 17th edition of the WCO IT Conference is being co-hosted by the Customs and Tax Administration of Peru (SUNAT) and supported by the Korea Customs Service (KCS) and the private sector.
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07 六月 2018
From 28 May to 1 June 2018, the World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a Time Release Study (TRS) workshop in Belize City for the National Customs administration of Belize.
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06 六月 2018
Under the framework of the Finland East and Southern Africa (ESA) Programme II, the WCO successfully delivered a regional pilot workshop on the 23rd of May to 1st of June at the Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Pretoria, South Africa.
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06 六月 2018
Under the auspices of the WCO-WACAM Project financed by Sweden, a technical assistance session was held from 28 May to 01 June 2018 at the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) Headquarters in Banjul to work on the design of a Strategic Dashboard for GRA.
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06 六月 2018
Under the auspices of the WCO-WACAM Project financed by Sweden, a capacity building session was held from 28 May to 01 June 2018 at the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) Headquarters in Banjul to develop a project management methodology.
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06 六月 2018
As of 1 August 2018, the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry will become the 77th guaranteeing organization member of the ATA international guarantee chain administered by the International Chamber of Commerce World Chambers Federation (ICC WCF).
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06 六月 2018
Singapore Customs and Australian Border Force (ABF) signed a Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) of Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programmes on 31 May 2018.
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06 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO), within the framework of the newly signed agreement between the WCO and Bahamas Customs and Excise Department (BCED) and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), organized a National Workshop on the development of an advance ruling system for the classification of goods under the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS).
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06 六月 2018
As part of the C-RED project (“Customs for Relief of Epidemic Diseases”), funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, six beneficiary countries in West Africa that were affected by the Ebola virus disease in 2014, held a second sub-regional workshop in Dakar (Senegal) from 7 to 9 May 2018.
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06 六月 2018
From 1 to 4 May 2018, the WCO, in partnership with UN-OCHA, conducted a scoping mission in Monrovia (Liberia) under the framework of the WCO “Customs for Relief of Epidemic Diseases” (C-RED) Project.
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05 六月 2018
On June 5th, the WCO joins the international community in celebrating World Environment Day, under the theme “Beat plastic pollution”.
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05 六月 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) with the support of Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) organized a joint Customs-Post Workshop for the Caribbean Sub-Region from 28 to 31 May 2018 in Georgetown, Guyana.
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01 六月 2018
15 Customs officers participated in a WCO Airport Compliance and Enforcement Officer (ACEO) workshop from 22 to 25 May 2018.
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01 六月 2018
Five Revenue Authorities of East Africa, namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, gathered in Zanzibar, Tanzania on 29 May 2018 for the first Regional Joint Coordinating Committee (RJCC) meeting of their newly launched “Project on Capacity Development for Trade Facilitation and Border Control in East Africa”.
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01 六月 2018
In response to a request from the Burundi Revenue Office (BRO) and with the financial support of the Finnish Government through the WCO-FINLAND-ESA Project (Phase 2), the WCO organized a national workshop on the amended International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures, known as the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), to support Burundi in its procedure for accession to this major instrument.
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01 六月 2018
The WCO, responding to a request for capacity building in the area of effective revenue assurance, conducted a Regional Workshop on Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) for the Americas and the Caribbean Region at the Regional Training Center (RTC) Dominican Republic from 23 to 25 May 2018, in cooperation with CAPTAC-DR and the Customs Administration of the Dominican Republic.
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