The jeU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer Chris Magnus, received on Friday (23.09.2022) the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, to discuss customs cooperation.
Chris Magnus highlighted CBP's assistance to WCO members in capacity building and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to providing leadership and good governance within the global customs community, according to the statement. The two officials also discussed the evolving trade landscape, including e-commerce and customs digitalization.
“For more than 50 years, CBP and WCO have worked together to facilitate the cross-border movement of essential goods, while protecting communities from dangerous contraband,” Magnus said at the meeting in Washington.
Additionally, the CBP Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs Debbie Seguin, welcomed Mikuriya in a Roundtable with senior border agency leaders, organized to discuss the latest CBP initiatives related to data analytics, e-commerce, green practices, and other emerging topics.
Debbie Seguin said such initiatives contribute to the “creation of global customs standards” and argued that they “reduce trade costs, ensure a level playing field for law-abiding businesses and protect consumers.”
In that context, the senior official emphasized that CBP remains committed to providing leadership and expertise to the WCO to “support its members as they address pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, the effects of climate change, and other critical challenges.”
It is worth recalling that the United States joined the WCO in 1970, being a leader in the development and implementation of the SAFE Framework of Standards and other WCO tools that secure and facilitate international trade.
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