The following is excerpted from a 19 April 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya met Japanese Minister of Finance Jun Azumi in Tokyo on 19 April 2012 during which the Minister expressed his full support for the WCO’s ongoing agenda.
The Minister stressed the importance of the role Customs can play in enhancing connectivity at borders, thereby facilitating trade as well as efforts to gain economic competitiveness.
This report is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=368