Customs Matters: Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World
June 21, 2022
Customs administrations around the world face new challenges: an increasing volume of international trade, a revolution in new technologies, and fundamental changes in business models. The benefits of a well-performing customs administration are clear, as is the need to develop efficient, effective, fair, and modern customs administrations.
Customs Matters analyzes the many changes and challenges customs administrations face and proposes ways to address them. By offering a cross-sectional view of the main aspects of customs administration, the book guides policymakers and customs officials as they evaluate the current state of their customs system with a view to developing, reinforcing, or relaunching their own roadmaps for customs modernization.
The discussion explores the many changes and challenges customs administrations face and how to address some of them as customs officials evaluate the current state of their customs system with a view to developing, reinforcing, or relaunching their own roadmaps for customs modernization.
Read more in the IMF’s book Customs Matters: Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World
Agenda
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Monday, June 21, 2022
Login will start at 10:00 am ET via Zoom |
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10:30–10:35 am
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Opening Remarks: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF Andrea Lemgruber, Chief, Revenue Administration 2, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department |
| 10:35–10:40 am |
Presentation – “Strengthening Customs' Capacity” Vitor Gaspar, Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department |
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10:40–10:50 am |
Presentation – "Why Customs Matters" Katherine Baer, Deputy Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department |
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10:50–11:25 am
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Panel Discussion: Moderator: Andrea Lemgruber, Chief, Revenue Administration 2, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department. Panelists: Caroline Freund, Dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy Konstantinos Kaiopoulos, WCO Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs Directorates Julio Fernández Frutos, Director General, Paraguay Customs |
| 11:25–11:30 am |
Summary of Key Points and Closing Remarks Vitor Gaspar, Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department |