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EEC – WCO: arrangement reached to introduce best international practices in EAEU countries' customs administration
Ruslan Davydov, Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a working meeting with Ian Saunders, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), on the sidelines of the WCO Technology Conference & Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro.
The parties discussed promising areas of interaction, including the practical implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the EEC and the WCO.
Ruslan Davydov noted the EEC high interest in the systematic participation of its representatives in the WCO working bodies, as well as in providing the EEC employees with access to the organization's online educational platform, enabling them to study the global experience and best practices in the customs sphere.
They agreed to organize interaction between the EEC and the WCO on introducing the best international practices of administration into the day-to-day activities of the EAEU Member States' customs authorities.
“In accordance with the Eurasian Economic Union's legislation, the Commission is empowered to maintain the CN FEA of the EAEU, as well as to make decisions on classifying certain types of goods to ensure uniform application of the nomenclature in the EAEU countries. These decisions are mandatory for application in the Union's territory,” Ruslan Davydov noted. “In this regard, the interaction between the Commission and the WCO Harmonized System Committee will contribute to harmonizing approaches to classification applied in the EAEU territory with the international practice of goods classification”.
The main topics of discussion were information exchange between customs services of different countries, the use of digital technologies in the movement of goods by all modes of transport, and the potential of non-intrusive technologies in customs control.
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an international non-governmental, permanent organization in the field of customs and tariff policy regulation. The organization has 186 member countries, accounting for 98% of world trade.
