On 21 June the WCO published the 83rd edition of WCO News, its flagship magazine aimed at the Customs community, which provides a selection of informative articles that touch on the international Customs and trade landscape.
This edition features a special dossier on the use of collective action to fight corruption and how it can apply in the Customs context, and includes both country-specific experiences as well as the views of Customs’ partners.
It also puts a spotlight, in its focus section, on the WCO Mercator Programme, the capacity building programme designed by the WCO to assist governments in implementing the Customs trade facilitation measures outlined in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).
Other highlights include articles on the implementation of a new standard to ensure that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, enhanced control of light aviation in West Africa, the use of basic mathematics to fight corruption and bad practices, and much more.
The magazine is published and distributed free of charge three times a year, in February, June and October, and is available online or in paper format.
If you do not want to miss future issues of WCO News, you are invited to fill out the online subscription form.
04 Flash info
04 - Image format standardisation: a revolution in the making - By Tim S. Norton, Global Market Director, Ports & Borders, Corporate Strategy & Marketing Group of Smiths Detection, and Asha Menon, Senior Technical Officer, Procedures and Facilitation Sub-Directorate, WCO.
06 - Latest accessions to WCO instruments.
08 Dossier: Collective Action.
09 - Integrity: what we have learned and what we still need to learn - By Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, WCO.
12 - Anti-corruption Collective Action: the logical next step for Customs - By Gemma Aiolfi, Head of the International Centre for Collective Action (ICCA), Basel Institute on Governance.
15 - Fighting corruption through partnership: the Uruguayan experience - By Verónica Gómez, Head of Audit of Processes, Uruguayan Customs Administration.
20 - Collective action to promote integrity in the maritime sector - By Martin Benderson, Associate, BSR (Copenhagen).
23 - Renewing Guatemala’s Customs service - By Mgter. Werner Ovalle, Guatemala Customs Intendent, and MBA. María Lucía Soto, Guatemala Council of Users of International Transport.
26 Focus: WCO Mercator Programme.
26 - WCO Mercator Programme: pioneering innovative partnerships - By Nathan Taylor, Programme Manager, and Johanna Tornstrom, Programme Coordinator, Capacity Building Directorate, WCO.
29 Panorama.
29 - ‘Hackathon’ innovation potential tested by Finnish Customs - By Annukka Elonen, Foreign Trade and Taxation Department, Finnish Customs.
32 - Enhanced control of light aviation in West Africa - By Philippe Haan, Regional Customs attaché, French Embassy in Dakar, Senegal.
36 - Gender equality through equal pay: Iceland Customs takes the lead - By Unnur Ýr Kristjánsdóttir, Director Human Resources, Iceland Customs.
40 - Border workforce well-being: Canada takes care of its employees - By John Ossowski, President of the Canada Border Services Agency.
44 - China’s latest initiatives to enhance Customs integrity and compliance - By Libing WEI, Policy Adviser, International Cooperation, China Customs.
47 - EAC Regional AEO programme: a model for regional integration and trade facilitation - By Richard Chopra, WCO-Sweden Programme Director, and Martin Ojok, EAC Regional Project Manager.
50 - Going digital: a Tanzanian Customs broker shares his experience - By Charles Bwaira, Managing Director, Trinity Logistics (T) Ltd.
52 - Using basic mathematics to fight corruption and bad practices: the realities of day-to-day practice in Cameroon - By Marcellin Djeuwo, Head of the Risk Management Unit, Cameroon Customs.
56 Events.
56 - WCO Global AEO Conference: a focal point for security and facilitation discussions.
59 - Calendar of Events.