Council 2016

Members of the WCO engage on e-commerce, security, coordinated border management, illicit trade, and revenue at the July 2016 WCO Council Sessions

By Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization

Tariff and Trade Affairs

Procedures and Facilitation

Capacity Building

Compliance and Enforcement

Signing ceremonies

Customs Brokers: An overview of the outcomes of the WCO Study Report

Some thoughts about Customs brokers: the WCO survey and beyond

By the International Federation of Customs Brokers Associations

An overview of Japan’s Customs brokerage legislation

By Shoichi Sudo, Deputy Director, Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Cameroon’s experience concerning licensed Customs brokers

By Cameroon Customs

A global Customs broker’s insights into the profession’s challenges, successes, and best practices

By Dana L. Lorenze, Senior Vice President, Global Customs, Expeditors

Assessing Single Window performance: an overview of the peer review exercise undertaken in five African countries

By the African Alliance for e-Commerce

Improving cocaine profiling for better law enforcement in Italy

By Maria Monfreda, Central Directorate for product analysis and chemical laboratories, Italian Customs

Homecoming: after 15 years, CBP returns to the World Trade Center

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

Georgia, Europe’s first nCEN country

By the Georgia Revenue Service

Dubai Customs launches the UAE’s innovative AEO programme

By Eman Badr Al-Suwaidy, Director, Customs Declaration Management & Owner, AEO Programme Project, Dubai Customs

Cooperation: a cornerstone of the EU’s Customs Union

By Roel van 't Veld, Specialist Policy Advisor, EU Affairs, Customs Administration of The Netherlands

“The looting of cultural heritage has been happening since the very existence of cultural heritage, it is not anything new, but what we see now is that looting has become highly organized”

By Molly Fannon, Director of the Office of International Relations, Smithsonian Institution

Global warming, international trade, and the quantification of carbon emissions: production-based and consumption-based accounting

By Robert Ireland, Head of the WCO Research Unit