The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Director-General announced on Wednesday, 22 February, 2017 that the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has entered into force after two thirds of members completed their domestic ratification process. The TFA aims to simplify international import and export procedures to provide certainty and predictability on customs formalities and transit requirements, which is…
On request from Solomon Islands Customs & Excise Department (SICED), the OCO Trade & Revenue Management Adviser, Ms Laisiana Tugaga was in Honiara, Solomon Islands on 13-21 February, 2017 to assist with the conduct of a Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS). The objective of the survey was to capture levels of the stakeholders’ satisfaction of SICED’s…
Greetings & Bula Vinaka! We are very excited to present our first Oceania Customs Organisation E-Newsletter. We intend to make it a regular publication and use it to advise you of future events, report on previous events and encourage you to share developments with the OCO Community. Whether you are new to us or a…
On this day 26 January the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) is joining the rest of the world customs family in celebrating the International Customs Day. The World Customs Organization (WCO) is dedicating 2017 to promoting data analysis under the slogan “Data Analysis for Effective Border Management”. The theme of this year’s International Customs Day resonates…
The OCO Executive Regional Workshop on Customs Modernisation and Reforms was held at the WCO Regional Training, Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority Suva, Fiji from 21-25 November2016. The seminar was organized and hosted by the Oceania Customs Organisation and attended by Heads of Customs from 18 of the member administrations. The panelists and presenters consisted…
The OCO in partnership with International Monetary Fund Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre (PFTAC) conducted a 5 days Regional Training on Risk Based Compliance Management. The Workshop was developed jointly with PFTAC to maximize the synergies that exist within Revenue authorities of OCO and Pacific Islands Tax Administrations Associations (PITAA) members. The Workshop was attended…
The OCO provided support to Customs Officials from Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Marshall Islands and Nauru to attend Training on WTO Valuation, Rules of Origin, Post Clearance and Harmonised System held in Kiribati from 8-17 November, 2016. Whilst the Program was specifically targeted at Kiribati Customs Service and sponsored by the Australian Department of…
The OCO Regional Executive Seminar on Single Window was held at the WCO Regional Training, Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority Suva, Fiji from 25th -26th July 2016. The seminar was organized and hosted by the Oceania Customs Organisation. It was attended by Heads of Customs from Cook Islands, Federated State of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati,…
The OCO facilitated a workshop from 11-15 April 2016 in Suva Fiji aimed at strengthening that capacity for customs administration in customs data management, custom research and national trade statistics. The Workshop was attended by 15 members of the OCO and brought together key stakeholders including representation of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, United…
Images from the Modernisation Workshop held from 21 – 25 November 2016.
