The World Customs Organization (WCO) published its June 2016 WCO News, titled “Stopping Illicit Trade”. If you are interested in a copy, please just drop us an email. To assist in your decision, the articles are:
04 - Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement added to WCO Comparative Study on Preferential Rules of Origin
05 - WCO releases new instrument on transfer pricing and Customs valuation
06 Dossier : Illicit Trade
06 - Some thoughts on illicit trade - by Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization
10 - Testing Customs enforcement practices: the ambitious agenda of the COPES Project - by the WCO Communications Service
12 - Malaysia destroys huge ivory trove - by Agence France-Presse (AFP)
14 - Risk management: an upgraded version of the nCEN now available - by the WCO nCEN team
16 - Switzerland addresses the traffic in cultural goods - by Professor Jean-Robert Gisler, Federal Office of Police, Switzerland
20 - Hong Kong Customs: equipped to tackle cybercrime - by Guy Fong, Group Head of Intellectual Property Investigation (Operations), Hong Kong Customs
22 - Highlights on the trade in non-authorized and counterfeit pesticides - by Ing. M.H. van Diesen, Senior Inspector, Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, The Netherlands.
26 - Illegal fishing, another form of wildlife crime - by Markus Burgener, Senior Programme Officer, TRAFFIC
32 - Tracking the illicit traffic in weapons - by Mike Lewis, Conflict Armament Research
34 - Automatic detection tools: from concept to reality - by Dr. Chen Zhiqiang, President and CEO, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
36 Focus
36 - The power of pollen: how CBP is at the forefront of using pollen as a new forensic tool - by Marcy Mason, a writer who covers trade for US Customs and Border Protection
42 - Point of view
42 - Thoughts on ‘Big Data’ and our real world - by Christine Macqueen, Director of Corporate Affairs, SICPA
44 - Quantifying the illicit trade in tobacco: a matter of public interest and self-interest - by Robert Ireland, WCO Head of Research and Communications
48 - Panorama
48 - Dubai Customs: Journey towards a ‘Customs of the future’ - by Juma Al Ghaith, Executive Director, Customs Development Division, Dubai Customs
54 - Publishing TRS results in the public domain: Poland’s positive experience - by Tomasz Michalak, Director, Customs Department, Ministry of Finance, Poland
59 - Customs-Police cooperation, the Canadian experience - by Nada Semaan, Executive Vice President, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
61 - Overview of Australian Border Force’s counter terrorism capabilities - by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
63 - Events
63 - Calendar of Events