Source: WCO
In the response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a number of WCO Members designated priority lanes and introduced facilitative measures with regard to the cross-border movement of essential goods. However, there is no internationally recognized definition of essential goods to support those WCO Members that are yet to consider providing priority treatment and facilitative measures to such goods.
To remedy the lack of a uniform interpretation and harmonized guidance on the matter, the WCO Secretariat developed a document aimed at highlighting certain provisions of existing WCO instruments and tools, other reference material and WCO Members’ practices. The document has been published on the dedicated COVID-19 section of the WCO web-site.
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