Operation Cosmo – the first ever global WCO operation on strategic goods

Update on the WCO Revenue Package

Global Trade and Customs Journal, the premier journal for international trade practitioners

By Jeffrey L. Snyder, , General Editor, GTCJ, and Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C. and Brussels

API and PNR: two key words on the global security agenda

By Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization

Challenges and opportunities of passenger data systems

Indonesia’s experience in building its Customs Passenger Data Exchange System

By Mr. Agung Krisdiyanto, Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation, Indonesian Customs

The French API-PNR programme

By Christophe Hypolite, PNR Mission, General Directorate of Customs and Excise, France

Japan’s new approach to Passenger Name Records

By Hideharu TANAKA, Counsellor (International Cooperation), Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Customs laboratories: available resources, assistance and networking possibilities

Customs laboratories, chemistry and excise: an historical introduction

By Ignacio Suay-Matallana, postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, United States

Dominican Republic opens top-notch Customs laboratory

Is it possible to use a private laboratory as a Customs laboratory?

By Laila Jensen, Customs officer and Preben Buchholtz Hansen, Director General, Danish Customs and Tax Administration

Customs laboratories in the United States: at the frontline of fighting fraud

By Marcy Mason, a writer who covers trade for US Customs and Border Protection

Mexico launches new strategy to combat informality

By the Tax Administration Service of Mexico

Strengthening export control capacity in the EU through a simulation exercise

By Renaud Chatelus, senior visiting scientist, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy

Collaboration between the United Kingdom and the United States crushes trade fraud

By Susan Holliday, Branch Chief in the Office of Public Affairs at US Customs and Border Protection

Ecuador undertakes a mirror analysis

By the National Customs Service of Ecuador

US Trade and Transparency Unit targets global trade-based money laundering schemes

By Bernadette Smith, WRITER, US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

The killing of elephants continues: what can be done to stop the accelerating risk of extinction?

Tobacco taxes, illicit trade and plain packaging