After more than nine years of negotiations under the framework of the Doha Development Agenda, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) finally adopted the Agreement on Trade Facilitation … (ATF) as part of the ‘Bali Package’ at the Ninth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference which took place in Bali, Indonesia from 3 to 7 December 2013.

The “Bureau International des Containers et du Transport Intermodal” (BIC), the non-governmental organization (NGO) responsible for allocating an owner code to every container owner or operating … company, recently launched its real-time e-BIC service for Customs administrations.

A new global campaign was launched on 14 January 2014 by the United Nations (UN), under the auspices of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to raise aware - ness about the dangers associated … with coun - terfeit goods and their link to transnational organized crime.