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The organization’s mission and objectives:

The mission of the organization is to improve the effectiveness
of customs administrations around the world through the
development of international legal tools for the coordination
of customs systems and effective communication between the
Member States, and the movement of goods, people, and means
of cross-border transportation. The organization also provides a
capacity-building program and technical assistance to members as
a means of supporting modernization efforts.

Trade facilitation:

The role of the World Customs Organization related to trade around the world. It is also used to achieve the objectives related
facilitation is concerned with facilitating trade and avoiding to customs work at the international level; in addition to collecting
unnecessary trade restrictions, and the World Customs Organization international trade statistics, improving revenue collection and
believes that this can be achieved by applying modern methods protecting society and homeland.
and techniques and raising the efficiency of controls in a globally
coordinated manner. The WCO came into effect in 1974, followed Speech of the Secretary-General on the
by the revised Kyoto Agreement in 1999 which is considered the occasion of World Customs Day 2022:
main tool for trade facilitation of the World Customs Organization,
standards, and capacity development programs. The Secretary-General of the World Customs Organization gave
a speech on the celebration of World Customs Day, saying:
Celebrating World Customs Day:
“The World Customs Organization is celebrating World
World Customs Day has been held on January 26 since 1953, when Customs Day 2022 under the theme Scaling up Customs› Digital
the inaugural session of the Customs Cooperation Council (CCC) Transformation by Embracing a Data Culture and Building a
was held in Brussels, Belgium. Seventeen European countries Customs Data Ecosystem›. The customs community will focus
attended this session, and in1994, the name (CCC) was changed to on how to operate in a fully digital environment and create an
the World Customs Organization (WCO), and today the customs operating model that captures and exploits data from across the
administrations are composed of 183 member states of the World trading ecosystem.
Customs Organization.
Over the years, digital technology has developed rapidly and
Objectives of the celebration of World Customs Customs can now make use of other government agency data,
Day: commercially available databases, and open-source information
platforms such as digital global public records and multilingual
On International Customs Day, customs administrations organize news sources.
activities for employees where officers of customs administrations
are honored for their good service. Workshops and conferences The extent to which data can be used effectively depends on many
are held focusing on the theme and slogan of the year, and the factors surrounding data ethics, including privacy, commercial
challenges facing administrations and employees. It also organizes confidentiality, legal issues regarding the use of data by customs
public awareness events through which it educates the public about and tax administrations, and the importance given to innovation
Customs work and its roles.

The International Customs Day is also used to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of members of customs administrations

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