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WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DES
DOUANES
Established in 1952 as the Co-operation Council Creee en 1952 sous le nom de Consell de cooperation douaniere
Message
I am pleased to be writing this message in light of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs’ (CBIC) publication of the 2020 edition of the “Smuggling in India Report”; which is being published on the occasion of the 63rd Foundation Day of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
As a longstanding and valued Member of the World Customs Organization (WCO), the CBIC has had strong cooperation with the WCO in a number of enforcement related areas. For example, recently the CBIC hosted a week long national training as part of the WCO’s Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme which brought together 30 Indian Customs officers to learn about the latest risk management measures in countering the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. This training shows India’s effort and commitment to ensure Indian Customs is well equipped to comply with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.
For a number of years the DRI has provided WCO Members with relevant information by sharing seizure information on our Customs Enforcement Network (CEN) seizure database as well as sharing information at the regional level through the WCO’s Regional Intelligence Liaison Office (RILO) Network.
Recently the WCO has placed increased attention on the digitalization and interoperability of various tools. As part of this work the WCO has been working on automating data flows
Kunio Mikuriya
Secretary General World Customs Organization