The Eighth Virtual Meeting of the Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held in two Phases: 14 to 25 September 2020, CONSULTATION PHASE (including mini virtual sessions) via the CLiKC! WGRKC Forum;7 to 9 October 2020,...

From 28 September to 1 October 2020, the WCO successfully held a Virtual Regional Workshop on Organizational Performance Measurement for the WCO Europe Region. This important activity, opened by the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño, gathered over 40...

On 18 September 2020, the National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC) of Zambia under the auspices of the Ministry of Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, launched the Time Release Study (TRS) for the Chirundu One Stop Border Post. This TRS was rolled-out with...

The 10th edition of the WCO Knowledge Academy for Customs and Trade was held virtually from 8 to 10 September 2020, in English and French. It proved a resounding success, with over 960 participants taking part in the three-day intensive training course for...

WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa met with the Foreign Secretary of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, on 10 July 2019 to discuss the WCO’s support for regional development. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in...

The 9th edition of the WCO knowledge Academy for Customs and Trade was launched on Monday 1 July 2019 at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, with over 150 participants taking part in a one-week intensive training course targeted at Customs and trade...

The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the LXXX Congress of the Confederation of Customs Brokers Associations of Mexico (CAAAREM) which took place in Yucatan, Mexico, on 11 and 12 July 2019. Mrs. Margarita Rios-Farjat, Head of the Tax...

The 5th Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held at WCO Headquarters in Brussels from 3 to 6 June 2019, consisting of a “Members/Contracting Parties Only session and a “Stakeholder Engagement”...

Directors General of the 183 WCO Member Customs administrations met as the WCO Council, the Organization’s supreme decision-making body, in Brussels, Belgium from 27 to 29 June 2019 to take stock of what had been done since it last met and to map the road ahead for...

At the invitation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the 28th Meeting of Directors General of Customs Administrations from ASEAN countries which was held in...

On 13 May 2019, on the occasion of the 21st Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) Annual Conference held in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the representatives of the Cook Islands and Tuvalu deposited with Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa (WCO...

At the invitation of the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO), WCO Deputy Secretary General Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended its 21st Annual Conference, held in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), from 13 to 16 May 2019.   The...

At the invitation of Mr. Julio Fernandez Frutos, Director General of Paraguay Customs, and Mr. Ricardo Peralta Saucedo, Director General of Mexico Customs and Permanent Secretary of the Multilateral Agreement on Mutual Assistance for Directors General of Latin...

At the invitation of the Director General of Dominican Republic Customs, Mr. Enrique Ramírez Paniagua, in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the WCO Americas/Caribbean (AMS) region, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the XXII Regional Conference of Customs...

At the invitation of the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC), WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended its XLI Annual Conference, held in Havana, Cuba from 20 to 24 May 2019.   During the opening ceremony, Deputy Secretary General...

At the invitation of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan and the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), co-organizers of the 36th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC), Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, WCO Deputy Secretary General, attended...

Select WCO Members and key stakeholders came together to mark the occasion of the introduction of the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs at the 10th session of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Capacity Building Committee (CBC)...

The 10th Session of the WCO Capacity Building Committee (CBC) was held in Brussels from 8 to 10 April 2019, under the theme “Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Future”.  This Session was particularly important as it commemorated the decade mark since the...

The fourth Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels from 3 to 5 April 2019. Approximately 37 new proposals and 10 revised and detailed proposals from Australia,...

Customs officials from 18 Middle East and North of Africa (MENA) Region countries met in Muscat, Oman from 24 to 28 March 2019, to discuss the capacity building needs and share knowledge and experience with regard to the modernisation initiatives of Customs...

In December 2018, Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the WCO signed a 5.5 million Swiss Franc contract to jointly support selected Members of the WCO and their stakeholders, including the private sector, in the implementation of their...

On 20 and 21 March 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosted the 7th OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum at its Headquarters in Paris, with the theme “Tech for Trust”.  Among the topics discussed were the ways that...

The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the 2019 Development Partners Coordination Meeting for the Americas and Caribbean region held in Washington, D.C., United States on 14 March 2019. The event was co-organized by the WCO, the...

The WCO Trade Facilitation Agreement Working Group (TFAWG) met for the eleventh time on 4 and 5 March 2019 in Brussels at the WCO’s Headquarters. The meeting included a Joint Session with the WCO Permanent Technical Committee (PTC). Over a hundred delegates,...

On 11 and 12 February 2019, the 13th Meeting of the Audit Committee took place at WCO Headquarters under the Chairmanship of Mr. Bjørn Røse, Norway Customs. The Meeting was attended by 10 of the 12 Audit Committee Members, and by the Chairperson of the Finance...

The Third Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) took place in Brussels from 6 to 8 February 2019, going on with substantial discussions on approximately 70 concept-based proposals from WCO Members...

The Second Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) took place in Brussels from 10 to 12 December 2018, launching substantive discussions on proposals developed by WCO Members for the comprehensive review of...

At the kind invitation of the Indian Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), the Policy Commission held its 80th Session in Mumbai from 3 to 5 December under the chairmanship of Mr. Enrique Canon, Director General of Uruguay Customs.   The...

WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended the debriefing of Operation Demeter IV, held in Shanghai, China on 20 November 2018. This event, organized and hosted by the General Administration of China Customs (GACC), was also attended, among others, by...

The 28th WCO Asia/Pacific Regional Contact Points Meeting was held from 14 to 16 November 2018 in Jaipur, India. The objectives of the meeting were for the delegates from the Asia/Pacific region to discuss issues of common interest of the region and to exchange their...

On 13 and 14 November 2018, the WCO completed its regional consultation process on the Strategic Plan 2019/2022 with the 6th regional workshop held in Jaipur, India, Asia/Pacific (A/P) region.  The workshop was jointly chaired by Mr. Ricardo Treviño...

On 9 November 2018 the WCO hosted the Global Conference on the Comprehensive Review of the RKC which gathered close to 150 experts from Member Customs administrations, partner international organizations, regional organizations, industry associations, the private...

The World Customs Organization (WCO) held its first Global Integrity Experts Meeting from 23-26 October 2018, with funding support from the China Customs Cooperation Fund.  The primary objective of this meeting was to support the growing needs...

Consultation with Members on the new Strategic Plan continued with the North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) region.  Jordan Customs hosted the fifth regional workshop, held in Amman, Jordan, on 5 November 2018. The workshop was jointly chaired by Mr....

The fourth regional workshop on the WCO Strategic Plan 2019/2022 took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 29 and 30 October 2018.  On this occasion, the WCO engaged with the West and Central Africa (WCA) region as a continuation of the consultation process approved by...

The WCO continued its Members’ consultation on the Strategic Plan 2019-2022 with a third regional meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, on 17 and 18 October 2018.  This workshop follows on from those already held in the Europe and Americas and Caribbean regions, as...

At their June 2018 sessions, the WCO Policy Commission and Council approved the setting up of a Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (as amended), recognizing the need...

The Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) met at WCO Headquarters on 15 and 16 October 2018. MICHELIN, SABIC, BASC, FONTERRA, IATA, IBM, L BRANDS and RENAULT-NISSAN-MITSUBISHI were welcomed as new members of the group. The meeting started with an orientation...

The WCO held a workshop for the Americas and Caribbean region in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 9 and 10 October 2018 to gather Members’ views for the development of the WCO Strategic Plan 2019-2022.  This is the second in a series of workshops being...

As approved by the Council session of June 2018, the WCO has adopted a new approach for collecting Members views to be incorporated in the new WCO Strategic Plan 2019-2022. A series of regional workshops will be held from September to November in the six WCO regions...

The First Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) took place in Brussels from 10 to 12 September 2018, thus kicking off the work to conduct a comprehensive review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), one...

The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the 2nd Air Cargo Development Forum, an event organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and bringing together experts to discuss and address emerging issues in the...

The WCO-Japan Career Development Programme for 2017/2018 ended with a ceremony at which the ten Professional Associates were awarded certificates on their successful completion of the Programme. This ceremony was preceded by a reporting session during which the...

The 8th edition of the WCO knowledge Academy got underway on Monday 2 July 2018 at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, with over 180 participants taking part in a one-week intensive training course targeting Customs and trade professionals.  There will...

The 132nd Annual Session of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Council – the Organization’s highest decision-making body – took place in Brussels, Belgium from 28 to 30 June 2018 under the direction and guidance of the Chairperson, Mr. Enrique Canon,...

The Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) met for its 44th session at the WCO headquarters on 25 and 26 June with the participation of delegates from 14 PSCG members. The group reviewed ongoing work, discussed future activities and prepared for the PSCG...

At the invitation of the Secretariat of the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, WCO Deputy Secretary General, attended the ITF Summit 2018 held in Leipzig, Germany, from 23 to 25 May 2018. The ITF Summit 2018 is the world’s...

At the invitation of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the International Association of Authorized Economic Operators (AEO), the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the 2018 AEO International Conference and...

At the invitation of the French Government, WCO Deputy Secretary General Ricardo Treviño Chapa attended the “No Money for Terror” Conference held in the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France, on Thursday 26 April 2018. This Conference aimed to assist Governments in...

The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the WCO-COMALEP Private Sector Meeting entitled “Coordinated Border Management: A pending challenge”, as well as the XXXIXth Meeting of Customs National Directors of Latin America, Spain and...

The 17th session of the WCO Integrity Sub-committee was held on 1 and 2 March 2018 with the theme “SECURITY AND INTEGRITY: Curbing Threats, Leveraging Opportunities”. Approximately 150 delegates representing Member administrations and stakeholder organizations took part in the 17th session of the Integrity Sub-committee (ISC).

A special commemoration session celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Harmonized System (HS) Convention was held in Brussels on 6th March 2018 at the beginning of the 61st Session of the HS Committee, with around 150 representatives from Member administrations, international organizations, invited guests and the WCO Secretariat.

The 19th meeting of the SAFE Working Group (SWG), held from 21 to 23 February 2018 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels, brought together over 100 delegates from Customs administrations, partner government agencies, the Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG), international organizations and academia.

Ricardo Treviño Chapa, the current Administrator General of Mexico Customs, was elected Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) on 14 December 2017. He will take up his post at the Secretariat on 1 January 2018.