Editions

Issue 1 / 2026: Data-Driven Modernization

In this issue: implementing Time Release Studies, conducting Customs Integrity Perception Surveys, using performance measurement to drive change, automating risk analysis, managing ODS destruction, tracing blockchain’s evolution in Customs, making suppliers audit efficient and impactful, and much more....

Issue 3 / 2025: Managing e-commerce

In this issue: managing e-commerce, leveraging geospatial intelligence, codifying supplier details and goods descriptions for automated risk assessment, enhancing performance measurement, using rules of origin in FTAs as tools for environmental policy, recent innovations in portable analytical instrumentation and much more....

Issue 2 / 2025: Creating a culture of integrity

In this issue: creating a culture of integrity, adopting competency based human resource management, piloting the new WCO Customs Integrity Perception Survey Online Tool, responding to extreme climatic events, launching on-site inspection service, developing an online examination platform to assess knowledge, and much more....

Issue 1 / 2025: Making a difference

In this issue: simplifying VAT exemption claims for the export of low-value consignments, combating tobacco smuggling, strengthening capacity to control air passenger flows based on risk profiling, pooling data and intelligence in order to gain a better understanding of and tackle the issue of trade-based money laundering, developing a professional certification programme for Customs officers, recycling counterfeit products, using virtual reality to train officers, exchanging images of scanned cargo and much more....

Issue 3 / 2024: Illicit Trade

In this issue: fighting illicit trade, digitising procedures, leveraging artificial intelligence, measuring cross-border e-commerce, reforming post-clearance audit processes and much more...

Issue 2 / 2024: Measuring performance

In this issue: performance measurement, Time Release Studies, Nuclear Security Detection Architecture at borders, digitization of ATA Carnets, machine learning and automating image analysis, and much more...

Issue 1 / 2024: Engaging partners

In this issue: engaging new and traditional partners with purpose, automatic Customs data exchange, new publications on rules of origin, misuse of ATA carnets, advanced electronic warehouse management system, due diligence and SMEs, and much more..

Issue 3 / 2023: Focus on the port environment

In this issue: revitalizing cooperation between Ports and Customs and moving the digitalization agenda forward, leveraging data analytics for efficient risk management, automatic Customs data exchange, using cameras to make traffic controls more efficient, elevating partnerships between Customs brokers and Customs authorities, using Artificial Intelligence to break the paper chain in today’s Customs document flow or for Customs classification purposes, and much more...

Issue 2 / 2023: Fragile Borders

In this issue: Customs administrations' challenges and strategies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations, developing leadership and management skills, fighting corruption in the form of gift-giving, an Open Customs Blockchain for the exchange of key Customs data, muon tomography and much more....

Issue 1 / 2023: Managing knowledge

In this issue: some best practices related to knowledge management, automating the measurement of release and clearance times at the border, controlling inputs of cigarette production, supporting mental and physical health, shifting focus from risk management to a decision intelligence approach and much more...

Issue 3 / 2022: Disruptive technologies

In this issue: the use of the disruptive technologies, collecting enforcement related data, exploratory Study Project on a possible strategic review of the Harmonized System and much more...

Issue 2 / 2022 : Supporting the green transition

In this issue: the role of Customs in supporting the ambition to make modes of production and the supply chain more sustainable, ensuring equality and diversity, deploying scientists at the border to better fight drug trafficking, evaluating the impact of training activities, protecting importers' information and much more

Issue 1 / 2022: Destination....Data!

In this issue: data culture, data ecosystems, data analytics, data quality, data strategy, data exchange, data standardization, data literacy, and much more

October 2021 - E-Commerce: How Customs is responding to the challenge

In this issue: several administrations share information on the initiatives they are taking to enhance their capacity to control the compliance of “low value” shipments, we look at how to handle obsolete Non-Intrusive Inspection equipment, we introduce a new ISO standard to improve Customs and indirect tax audits, and much more

June 2021 - a people-focused edition

In this issue: experiences, tools and practices relating to personnel management and development, leading in times of crisis, ensuring gender equality and diversity, adopting a competency-based approach, management and implementation of rules of origin, the virtues of virtual, making analytics work for everyone ...

February 2021 - Recovery, Renewal, Resilience

In this issue: Shedding light on the efforts by the trade and Customs community to move towards a more efficient and sustainable practices, enhancing the compliance of imported products with quality and safety requirements, performance measurement, accelerating the digitalization of international trade and much more

October 2020 - Customs Valuation: history, challenges and opportunities

In this issue: Shedding light on the rules for valuing imports and implementation challenges, how the WCO Secretariat and Customs administrations responded to the COVID-19 crisis, new business tools to enable enhanced supply chains visibility, streamlining clearance of food products….

June 2020 - COVID-19: Impact, challenges, lessons learned and way forward

How Customs and their partners responded to the COVID-19 crisis, the future of Customs, trade in wild plant resources, data analysis, digitization, automated data exchange, access to domain name information and much more

February 2020 - Customs fostering Sustainability for People, Prosperity and the Planet

In this issue: Implementation of environmental agreements, illegal logging, internal communication, Time Release Study, machine learning and valuation of goods, and much more

October 2019 - Council, Risk Management, E-Commerce and much more

In this issue: areas of work identified by Members as priorities, work achieved from July 2018 to June 2019, controlling dual-use goods, addressing E-Commerce security and safety concerns, leveraging three analytical approaches to risk management, using API and PNR for passenger control, investing in leadership and much more.

June 2019 - Towards technology-driven organizations

In this issue : Customs administrations share information on their initiatives related to technology, fighting illicit financial flows in Brazil, managing free trade zones in Georgia, new Customs tools to advance gender equality and diversity and much more

February 2019 - SMART Borders

In this issue : how Customs and its public and private sector partners are fast turning the concept of SMART Borders into a reality, illegal wildlife trade, protection of cultural heritage, boosting innovation and connecting people, waste trafficking and much more

October 2018 - Council 2018, Blockchain, Free Zones...

In this issue :areas of work identified by Members as a priority, work accomplished from July 2017 to June 2018, “Blockchain” and its application within the Customs and trade environments, assessment of trade facilitation policies, simplification of export processes, and much more.

June 2018 - The Harmonized System from every angle

In this issue: The Harmonized System, Illicit Financial Flows, Storage and destruction of counterfeit goods, Time Release Study, Gender equality, new analytical tools, protection of cultural heritage, effective response to epidemics and much more

February 2018 - A secure business environment for economic development

In this issue : a special dossier on the theme chosen by the WCO for 2018 with articles presenting initiatives and related projects that contribute to creating such a secure business environment. The articles touch on authorized economic operators, national committees on trade facilitation, coordinated border management, performance measurement, e-commerce, data analysis, and partnerships with the private sector. Other highlights include articles on Customs systems interconnectivity in SACU on the experience of a young Nigerian Customs officer who participated in the Strategic Management and Intellectual Property Rights Programme at Tokyo’s Aoyama Gakuin University, on how the WCO West and Central Africa region is using data to monitor Customs modernization.

October 2017 - Council 2017, Transit, E-commerce...

In this issue: WCO Council sessions, transit procedures, Top Executive Retreat, the fight against the illicit trade in cigarettes in the Dominican Republic, cross-border e-commerce policy in China, and much more

June 2017 - Sweeping away corruption through collective action

In this issue: a special dossier on the use of collective action to fight corruption and how it can apply in the Customs context, the WCO Mercator Programme, the implementation of a new standard to ensure that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, enhanced control of light aviation in West Africa, the use of basic mathematics to fight corruption and bad practices, and much more

February 2017 - Data Analysis for effective border management

In this issue: a special dossier on data analysis by Customs for more effective border management, spotlight on environmental issues, emerging technologies and how they can transform border management, modernizing human resource management, and much more

October 2016 - Council 2016, Customs brokers, Cultural heritage, Carbon emissions

In this issue: Outcomes of the WCO Study Report on Customs Brokers, Cameroon's experience concerning licensed Customs brokers, Assessing Single Window performance, Global warming, international trade, and the quantification of carbon emissions.

June 2016 - Stopping Illicit Trade

In this issue: Switzerland addresses the traffic in cultural goods, Illegal fishing, another form of wildlife crime, Tracking the illicit traffic in weapons, Quantifying the illicit trade in tobacco, and much more.

February 2016 - Going Digital

In this issue: Start small, think big: big, Implementing the WTO TFA will deliver huge dividends to the global economy, Customs valuation databases and their misuses, A review of the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015, and much more

October 2015 - E-commerce, Council 2015, Tobacco control...and lots more

In this issue: Illegal wildlife trade: an outline of the problems facing Peru, Singapore's 'whole-of-government' approach for coordinated border management, Tobacco control, international trade, and public health, Sri Lanka Customs' response to a natural disaster, and much more

June 2015 - API/PNR, What lays behind these two key words on the global security agenda

In this issue: Operation Cosmo targets strategic goods, Mexico launches new strategy to combat informality, Collaboration between the UK and the US crushes trade fraud, What coordinated border management means for Canada, and much more