CONTENT (Download the June 2016 Issue in PDF Format)
04 Flash info
04 – Overview of the e-learning courses available on the WCO CliKC! platform
05 – Latest accessions to WCO instruments
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06 Dossier : Council 2016
08 – 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
11 – Latest developments related to tariff and trade affairs
17 – Latest developments related to procedures and facilitation
22 – Latest developments related to capacity building
26 – Latest developments related to compliance and enforcement
30 – Other highlights: election results; winner of the photo competition; and signing of Memoranda of
Understanding
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32 Focus: Customs Brokers
32 – An overview of the outcomes of the WCO Study Report
By the WCO Secretariat
41 – Some thoughts about Customs brokers: the WCO survey and beyond
By the International Federation of Customs Brokers Associations
44 – An overview of Japan’s Customs brokerage legislation
By Shoichi Sudo, Deputy Director, Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan
46 – Cameroon’s experience concerning licensed Customs brokers
By Cameroon Customs
49 – 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
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45 Panorama
52 – Assessing Single Window performance: an overview of the peer review exercise undertaken in five
African countries
By the African Alliance for e-Commerce
55 – Improving cocaine profiling for better law enforcement in Italy
By Maria Monfreda, Central Directorate for Product Analysis and Chemical Laboratories,
Italian Customs
58 – 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
62 – Georgia, Europe’s first nCEN country
By the Georgia Revenue Service
64 – Dubai Customs launches the UAE’s innovative AEO programme
By Eman Badr Al-Suwaidy, Director, Customs Declaration Management & Owner,
AEO Programme Project, Dubai Customs
67 – Cooperation: a cornerstone of the EU’s Customs Union
By By Roel van ‘t Veld, Specialist Policy Advisor, EU Affairs, Customs Administration of
The Netherlands
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70 Interview
70 – Molly Fannon, the Director of the Office of International Relations at the Smithsonian Institution,
talks about the Institution and its activities, with a focus on the illicit trade in cultural goods and
cooperation with law enforcement authorities
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75 Point of view
75 – 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
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79 Events
79 – Calendar of Events