CONTENT (Download the June 2015 Issue in PDF Format)
04 Flash info
04 – Operation Cosmo – the first ever global WCO operation on strategic goods
05 – HS 2017 on the horizon
06 – Update on the WCO Revenue Package
07 – Global Trade and Customs Journal – the premier journal for international trade practitioners
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08 Dossier: API/PNR
10 – API and PNR: two key words on the global security agenda
By Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization
14 – Challenges and opportunities of passenger data systems
By the WCO Secretariat
18 – Indonesia’s experience in building its Customs Passenger Data Exchange System
By Mr. Agung Krisdiyanto, Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation, Indonesian Customs
22 – The French API-PNR programme
By Christophe Hypolite, PNR Mission, General Directorate of Customs and Excise, France
26 – Japan’s new approach to Passenger Name Records
By Hideharu TANAKA, Counsellor (International Cooperation), Customs and Tariff Bureau, Japan
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29 Focus: Customs Laboratories
29 – Customs laboratories: available resources, assistance and networking possibilities
By the WCO Secretariat
34 – Customs laboratories, chemistry and excise: an historical introduction
By Ignacio Suay-Matallana, postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, United States
36 – Dominican Republic opens top-notch Customs laboratory
By the General Directorate of Customs of the Dominican Republic
38 – 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
40 – 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
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46 Panorama
46 – Mexico launches new strategy to combat informality
By the Tax Administration Service of Mexico
48 – Strengthening export control capacity in the EU through a simulation exercise
By Renaud Chatelus, senior visiting scientist, European Commission Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Transuranium Elements, Nuclear Security Unit, Ispra,
52 – 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
54 – Ecuador undertakes a mirror analysis
By the National Customs Service of Ecuador
57 – US Trade and Transparency Unit targets global trade-based money laundering schemes
By Bernadette Smith, writer, US Immigration and Cutoms Enforcement
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61 Zoom
56 – What ‘coordinated border management’ means for Canada
By Luc Portelance, President, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
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64 In conversation
64 – The killing of elephants continues: what can be done to stop the accelerating risk of extinction?
An interview with Dr. George Wittemyer from Colorado State University
68 – Tobacco taxes, illicit trade and plain packaging
An interview with Luk Joossens from the Belgian Foundation against Cancer and the
Association of European Cancer Leagues
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71 Events
71 – International Customs Day in pictures
71 – Calendar of Events
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