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Please be advised we have received an application for IFCBA membership from PRO Customs. They are a fledgling Association of Customs Brokers in Romania. Kindly advise of any issues or concerns no later than Friday, July 21st. For additional information, please contact the IFCBA Secretariat at [email protected].
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IFCBA Secretariat
WTO members gathered on 16 May for the inaugural meeting of the Committee on Trade Facilitation, the body responsible for overseeing implementation of the WTO’s historic Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
The WCO has a busy calendar of meetings and this past week, its Trade Facilitation Agreement Working Group held its sessions. IFCBA Past Chair Jaime King and IFCBA Secretary Carol West were in attendance.
For more details on the meeting, please read this article, which appeared in the WCO News today.
One of the world's most important tech investors has told the logistics industry that there is little cause for its worrying about the emergence of Amazon as a third-party logistics provider.
At last week's TPM conference in Long Beach, managing director at start-venture capital firm Felicis Ventures, Wesley Chan, said he doubted that many shippers would want to hand over the sort of product data they would need to if employing Amazon as their freight forwarder.
A billionaire investor, a data-crunching genius and thousands of local postmen... How China's small-town stores are undergoing a tech revolution.
Samson Yeung won't relent in connecting China's village stores until he's reached saturation. "A million stores would be a very good number to dominate the market," he says. As Ule's chief operating officer, Yeung is moving fast to build the world's most ambitious real-time retail-data network.
A major milestone for the global trading system was reached yesterday, 22 February 2017, when the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the first multilateral deal concluded in the 21-year history of the World Trade Organization, entered into force.
In receiving four more ratifications for the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the WTO has obtained the two-thirds acceptance of the agreement from WTO's 164 members.
IFCBA is pleased to welcome its newest business member, 3DL Logisitcs, based in Brisbane, Australia. For more information on this business, please refer to the Members section of the website.
IFCBA is pleased to welcome its newest association member, the Mongolian Customs Consultants Brokers Association (MCCBA), Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. For more information on this association, please refer to the Members section of the website.
The WCO has published the 82nd edition of WCO News, the Organization’s flagship magazine aimed at the global Customs community, which provides a selection of informative articles that touch the international Customs and trade landscape.
This edition features a special dossier on data analysis by Customs for more effective border management, and includes a number of country-specific experiences, particularly in the area of risk management and Customs modernization programmes.
Data is generated by every economic activity, including the movement of goods and people and circulates extensively along the global value chain. Collecting and analyzing data to enhance the effectiveness of border management is of paramount importance to Customs administrations.
