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All of us at the IFCBA Secretariat in Ottawa wish you and your loved ones all the best for a safe and peaceful holiday season.Each year at this time we are reminded of the many reasons we have to be grateful. We thank you for your continued support of the IFCBA and your contribution to the work we…
The Policy Commission of the World Customs Organization recently met in Abuja, Nigeria. Following are links to two documents:1. a WCO report of those meetings; and2. the Informal Report of the WCO Private Sector Consultative Group, which is chaired by CSCB President and IFCBA Secretary, Carol West.
On 17 December, 2011, WTO Ministers adopted Samoa’s and Montenegro’s WTO terms of entry at the 8th Ministerial Conference in Geneva. Samoa will have until 15 June 2012 to ratify its accession package and Montenegro until 31 March 2012. Both countries will become fully-fledged WTO members 30 days…
The following is excerpted from a news item from the World Trade Organization (WTO).The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 19 December 2011, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes…
The following is excerpted from a 15 December 2011 news item from the World Trade Organization (WTO).The WTO has developed a new application that will allow users to access via one portal all trade policy information notified to the WTO by its members. Known as the Integrated Trade Intelligence…
The following is excerpted from a December 9, 2011 press release from the World Customs Organization.Twelve countries have united to launch Operation Tigre 2, an enforcement operation to combat counterfeiting and piracy led jointly by the WCO and the Panama Customs administration with funding…
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at a forum in Beijing on 11 December 2011 commemorating the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the WTO, said: “On this tenth anniversary, and as we look forward for the next decade, I have two wishes that I would like to express.The first is that China…
The WCO and the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance signed a Grant Agreement to support the Organization’s modernization and capacity building activities.Aimed at developing-country WCO Members, under the terms of the Agreement, Korea will provide generous funding to support WCO…
On November 24-25, 2011 in Guangzhou, China, the World Customs Organization (WCO) co-hosted with the General Administration of China Customs, a World Customs and Trade Forum focused on harnessing knowledge as a means to improve public-private sector collaboration in modernization of the…