WTO, WCO Leaders Meet to Discuss Trade Facilitation Agreement
World Trade Organization Director General Roberto Azevedo met with World Customs Organization Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya to discuss collaboration toward implementing the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF), said the WCO in a press release. The WTO reached a deal…
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on the trade facilitation agreement in December (see 13120922). The WCO plans to publish "an implementation tool to connect each provision of the ATF to WCO tools as well as a briefing document enabling Customs administrations to communicate with trade ministries," the release said. Mikuriya also emphasized the "complementary nature between the ATF and the WCO Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC)." Azevedo "expressed his willingness to leverage WCO expertise and experts for the WTO Preparatory Committee on Trade Facilitation," said the WCO.