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31 八月 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO)’s Environment Programme (EP) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) renewed and enhanced their partnership in their efforts to curb illegal wildlife trade (IWT) by launching a new project, which officially kicks off on 1 September 2021 for an expected duration of two years.
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27 八月 2021
On 22 August 2021, Mr. Mahdi Mirasharfi, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance and President of the Customs Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Mr. Kazutoshi Aikawa, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Japan to Tehran, signed an Agreement on Mutual Administrative Assistance and Cooperation in Customs Matters in Tehran, Iran, in the presence of the two countries’ Foreign Ministers.
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27 八月 2021
From 12 to 13 August 2021, the WCO Secretariat delivered a two-day virtual Risk Management (RM) Workshop with a specific focus on database management and data analytics to the Philippines Bureau of Customs (BoC).
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27 八月 2021
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is pleased to announce the publication of the Arabic version of the "Guidelines for Post-Clearance Audit (PCA) Volume 2".
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25 八月 2021
Following discussions at the Passenger Facilitation and Control Working Group (PFCWG) Global Cruise Ship Workshop in July, the WCO Secretariat, along with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT), hosted a meeting with representatives from the Cruise Line Industry Association (CLIA) to share recent developments and to discuss the priority tasks of the PFCWG.
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18 八月 2021
The Barbados Customs and Excise Authority (BCED) has identified as part of its strategic plan, the aim of improving operational efficiency, revenue collection and stakeholders’ engagement through its primary goal of modernizing its governance, policies and operations.
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17 八月 2021
A sign of the growing success of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) is the recent approval of the No-Cost Extension of the Programme by both the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the World Customs Organization (WCO).
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13 八月 2021
Despite COVID-19 constraints and as part of its ongoing support to Member administrations, the WCO conducted a virtual workshop on the topic of risk management for the Seychelles Revenue Commission from 14 to 16 July 2021.
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13 八月 2021
A follow-up online workshop was delivered from 12 to 16 July 2021 for the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) who had highlighted the need for support in implementing its tailor-made Risk Management and Advance Cargo Information System (ACIS) with a view to improving existing practices in the region.
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11 八月 2021
At the invitation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya delivered an online speech at the UPU Ministerial Conference held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on 10 August 2021.
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10 八月 2021
Since December 2020, the WCO Secretariat has launched a series of national workshops with online training modules in the framework of its IPR, health and safety program.
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06 八月 2021
On the 29th of July 2021, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), and FIU Hungary co-hosted the global Webinar entitled “Cooperation between National Customs Authorities and Financial Intelligence Units: Operational Matters, Challenges and Solutions.” Over 300 customs officers and FIU analysts from 107 countries across the world attended this anti-money laundering forum.
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04 八月 2021
The workshop, organized by the World Customs Organization (WCO) on Customs valuation for the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan, was an important step for its participants to familiarize themselves with the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement (CVA).
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02 八月 2021
The WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, participated in the first G20 Culture Ministers' Meeting held in Rome on 29 and 30 July 2021. This ministerial meeting, devoted to culture, is the latest addition to the work stream of the annual meeting of the world’s 20 major economies and led to the unanimous adoption of the “Rome Declaration of the G20 Culture Ministers”. Among various calls for action, the Declaration specifically mentions the need for the development and strengthening of appropriate tools in strong collaboration with organizations such as the WCO.
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