The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) SCCP meeting was held on 10-12 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and attended by delegates from 16 APEC Member economies, SCCP APEC Program Director (PD) and representatives from the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Oceania Customs Organization (OCO) participated as observers. The OCO was granted three-year guest status…
As a border law enforcement agency, who also deals with ensuring compliance with trade rules and collection of duties, Vanuatu Customs has always struggled with the consistent application of relevant laws and the ease of applying compliance measures nationally to improve voluntary compliance, primarily due to lack of readily available data. A contributing factor to…
Under the sponsorship of the PACER Plus Readiness Package, the OCO in collaboration with the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, Charles Sturt University (CCES) have jointly organized the PACER Plus ROO Train the Trainers (TTT) Workshop from 23-27 July, 2018 in Nadi, Fiji and 18 Customs Officials from 11 member countries took part. Rules…
The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) in collaboration with the New Zealand Customs Service facilitated a Workshop on the WCO Revenue Package with focus on the HS 2017 for customs administrations in the Micronesia region. The Workshop was hosted by the Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency from 16-20 July, 2018 and attended by seventeen (17) participants…
The 20th OCO Annual Conference, hosted by Australian Border Force in Melbourne, Australia, concluded on Thursday 14 June 2018. The official communique for the conference can be downloaded here: 20th OCO Annual Conference Communique- Australia.
The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) annual conference commenced on 11th June, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia, hosted by the Australian Border Force (ABF) with the theme “Strengthening regional connections to support a safe and prosperous Pacific”. The Conference was opened with statements from ABF Commissioner, Mr. Michael Outram and the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Secretary General,…
More than 23 personnel from the Pacific island countries [PICs] from both Tax and Customs administrations underwent a five-day Regional Workshop on ISORA /ISOCA conducted by the IMF. The Training was organized and funded by PFTAC. OCO, PFTAC and PITAA. Members were in attendance at the 5-day workshop at the Novotel Nadi that ran from…
Greetings and Bula Vinaka! We are pleased to present our second OCO PACER Plus Project Newsletter. The OCO PACER Plus Project which is funded by the governments of Australia and New Zealand, is a two year work program of technical assistance to PACER Plus signatories on their customs obligations under the Agreement. The OCO is pleased…
Through its partnership with the World Customs Organisation, four members of the OCO participated in the WCO Mercator Programme Advisor (MPA) Accreditation Workshop that was held at the Fiji Revenue & Customs Service (FRCS), WCO Regional Training Centre in Suva, Fiji from 22-26 January, 2018. The Workshop was facilitated by two Technical Officials from the…
As part of its assistance to PACER Plus signatory members, the OCO from 4-25 January, 2018 assisted Cook Islands Customs with the transposition of its current Customs Harmonised System from the 2012 version to the HS 2017. A key component of the transposition work is the inclusion of the Pacific Harmonised Commodity and Description &…
