On Thursday 24 June, the European Union presented its modernisation initiative to enable the World Customs Organization (WCO), a Brussels-based forum of 180 member countries and jurisdictions, to deal more effectively with today’s challenges in international trade.
This initiative, presented at the WCO Council, calls for reform of the WCO with the following objectives: – to make the Organization a more effective and efficient actor for the promotion of safe, secure and licit trade;...