The World Trade Organization (WTO) has published its report, the World Trade Statistical Review 2022.
World Trade Statistical Review 2022 looks into the latest developments in world trade, with a detailed analysis of the most recent trends for trade in goods and services.
The IFCBA held a very successful conference last week in Singapore, welcoming customs brokers from 12 countries in Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, and Africa, and celebrating the IFCBA’s 30th anniversary. A focus was on the World Customs Organization (WCO) study review of the Harmonized System of Tariff Classification.
Singapore’s strategic location at the heart of Southeast Asia; a nexus of major shipping routes, has made it an important logistic hub in the global supply chain. With a total of 53 berths and designed annual capacity of 50 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), Singapore is the world’s largest container transhipment hub. In 2021, Singapore handled 37.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers.
We look forward to seeing you in Singapore next month at our in-person IFCBA conference at the beautiful J.W. Marriott Hotel South Beach, Singapore.
We just wanted to send a reminder that the deadline to book your hotel is this Monday, November 14 – to ensure you get our block rate. Please use this link to book now:
Happy Diwali to Shankar Shinde (IFCBA Managing Director), A. V. Vijaykumar (IFCBA Director), Shantanu Bhadkamkar (an IFCBA Past Chairman) and all our friends in the FFFAI - Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Associations in India.
Many of our friends and colleagues in other countries are also celebrating Diwali, and we send our best wishes to all.
From the IFCBA Secretariat and members.
We hope to see you at the IFCBA conference in Singapore in December.
Source: WCO
The WCO Secretariat has set up a team to study the possibilities for potential improvements to the HS and its tools. The team will collect views and suggestions from stakeholders. Details of how you can get involved in the HS Study can be found at the end of this article.
The WCO has launched a useful website with information about countries who have AEO programs and Mutual Recognition Agreements. To use the WCO AEO Compendium, click on the following link to find your country or countries of interest.
The PSCG has received a request from Mr. Igor Dankov, Ukraine’s Customs Counsellor in Brussels for a statement against the war in Ukraine. PSCG Chair Jaime King has responded with the following message.
