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Designing ‘human-centred’ trade facilitation solutions: How does it work? By Craig Atkinson for Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)...

Insight perspectives by ALEXANDER DE VOET, Manager, Global Consulting Lead, Accenture Border Services In my previous blog, I looked at...

News & intelligence on safe, smart and secure cross border trade & investment for donors, governments, multilaterals, academia,...

Interesting perspectives by World Economic Forum on how technology is transforming global trade. Digitalization is the key to unlocking...

Interesting article by Dr. Deborah Elms, Asian Trade Centre, Singapore who we must congratulate for being an incredibly busy advocate for...

Interview with Ni Yuefeng, Head, General Administration of Customs (GAC) China: China's foreign trade has the conditions and capabilities...

Dubai Customs has launched Siyaj, an AI-based integrated control system to protect and secure the country’s ports and trade gateways,...

As nations in Asia adapt to Covid-19, regional trade conflicts, trade embargoes and new trade deals, accurate trade intelligence is...

We, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) recall the APEC MRT Statement on COVID-19 issued...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a calamity for global trade. UNCTAD forecasts that merchandise trade will fall by 20% in 2020 and by 27% during...

With a new alternative to Maersk-IBM Tradelens in place the pace of tradetech digitalisation is speeding up. Chinese state-run shipping...

Since 1947, states of the world have been working to liberalize international trade by reducing tariffs, under the General Agreement on...

Digitalisation of trade facilitation is now fundamental and no longer a distant plan -Congratulations to Dubai Customs under the...

Over the past few months, Customs authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean have had to work hard and think outside the box in...

Interesting insights By Krasna Bobenrieth When COVID-19 first started to garner attention at the beginning of 2020, nobody foresaw the...

Written by: Pamela Ugaz and Sijia Sun With the unprecedented global spread of COVID-19 in only one month, the World Health Organization...

China has established itself as a major trade partner of South Asia. This mainly reflects the region’s strategic importance for China’s...

With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, but they often...

ICC Secretary General John W.H. Denton AO and WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya say effective trade facilitation – based on...

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