“Partnership in Customs Academic Research and Development”
The 12th annual WCO PICARD Conference took place from 26 to 28 September 2017 in Hammamet, Tunisia was organised by the World Customs Organization (WCO) in partnership with the Tunisian Customs Administration.
Conference Summary
The conference was attended by more than 200 participants from 65 countries, representing Customs administrations, the academic and research communities, international and regional organisations, and the private sector. As in previous years, the 2017 PICARD Conference was attended by many INCU members and affiliates from various parts of the world.
The conference started with opening remarks delivered by Tunisia’s Finance Minister, Mr Ridha Chalghoum, WCO Secretary General Dr Kunio Mikuriya, and a representative of the Korea Customs Service, Mr. Chang-Ryung Han, Director of Information Analysis.
In his welcome address, the Finance Minister, Mr Ridha Chalghoum emphasized the importance of this Conference for the Tunisian Government and Customs. He considered it as a way to nurture the traditional Customs approach and vision with new ideas, to support Customs in its efforts to adequately address the current main challenges at borders, namely terrorism, smuggling, organised crime and corruption.
Secretary General Mikuriya expressed his gratitude to Tunisian Director General of Customs, Mr. Adel Ben Hassen, and his team for hosting the PICARD Conference, extended a warm welcome to the participants, and thanked the Korea Customs Service for supporting the participation of some of the speakers.
Dr. Mikuriya noted that “research activities and discussions on these topics, digging beyond Customs’traditional mandate into areas such as geospatial data, biometrics, or other innovative areas greatly support the Customs community and its stakeholders in their daily work and in their decision-making processes.”
Many INCU members and affiliates actively participated in the Conference including delivering keynote addresses, presentations, and chairing and leading panel and roundtable discussions, and chairing the Youth Forum.
INCU Member, Prof. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (University of Victoria, Canada) delivered a Keynote Address on the topic “Borders in Globalization Research”. Presentations were also delivered by the following INCU Members and Affiliates:
- Dr Salamat Ali (Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan)
- Prof Dr Yao-Hua Tan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Mr Xiaoping Jiang (Beijing Re-code Trade Security and Facilitation Research Center, China)
- Prof Andrey Klochenko (Russian Customs Academy, Russia)
- Dr Juha Hintsa (Cross-border Research Association, Switzerland)
- Ms Jenia Peteva (European Commission, Belgium)
- Dr Andrew Grainger (Nottingham University Business School, UK)
- Prof Dr Wieslaw Czyzowicz (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
Head of INCU Secretariat, Dr Mikhail Kashubsky, led a Roundtable discussion on “Partnership between Academia and Customs”. Other roundtable members included Mr Giovanni Gaeta, Technical Officer, WCO, Dr Audrey Klochenko, Russian Customs Academy, , Dr Tong Hua, WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB), Thailand and Mr Yeon Soo Choi, Technical Officer, WCO.
The Conference concluded with a Youth Forum, which provided an opportunity for some 10 students from Belarus, Russia, the Philippines and Tunisia, amongst others, to discuss topics integral to Customs as well as future career possibilities in Customs and international trade. The Youth Forum was chaired by Prof. Elena Bogdanova from ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia, which is one of INCU’s active Affiliates.
Conference Presentations
The following presentations were delivered at the conference:
| TITLE | SPEAKER(S) | |
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Extensive Margin In International Trade: Evidence from Disaggregated Data
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Adeem Khan | EN |
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Customs – Tax Cooperation: Exploiting the Potential of New Technologies
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Alicja Majdanska | EN |
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A proposed method for measuring trade facilitation
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Andrew Grainger & Duncan Shaw | EN |
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Partnership Customs and University: a Synergy of Knowledge
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Andrey Klochenko | EN |
| Data Integration in Customs Risk Management | Bai Luojun | EN |
| Biometrics & Border Security: Challenges and Possibilities of Harmonized Standards | Benjamin Muller | EN |
| The Structure of Turkey’s Export and the Importance of Inward Process | Caglayan Aslan | EN |
| Customs-FIU Cooperation against IFF through trade misinvoicing | Chang-Ryung Han | EN |
| Trade Misinvoicing: Why we need a common approach for detection, measurement and prevention | Clement Migai | EN |
| Combatting collusion: early lessons from Madagascar Customs | Cyril Chalendard, Ana Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Gael Raballand and Bob Rijkers | EN |
| Fraudulent Flow at peruvian – Ecuadorian Border: Leveraging Data Analysis | Edwin and Mary | EN |
| Are there lessons for customs in Borders In Globalization research? | Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly | EN |
| The Experience of Malagasy Customs in Committing to Performance | Eric Rabenja | EN |
| Data Analysis on API/PNR Data | Felipe Mendes Moraes | EN |
| Revenue Fraud in WCO ESA: A Mirror Analysis through the lens of Malawi | Frank Kalizinje | EN |
| Partnership In Customs Academic Research and Development | Giovanni Gaeta | EN |
| Coordination Douane-Impôt | Hedi Safer | FR |
| Snapshot of Academia-Customs Cooperation |
Mikhail Kashubsky | EN |
| Trade Facilitation KPIs – Time for an Open Data Framework? | Ilmari Soininen | EN |
| Information and Communication Technology(ICT) and Efficiency of Data Analysis in African Customs Lessons Learned from Expirence in Customs Cote d’Ivoire | Jacques N’Dri | FR |
| Customs Implementation of Vat One Stop Shop | Jenia Peteva | EN |
| Trade barriers and informal trade in Sub-Saharan Africa | Joachim Jarreau | EN |
| Cost Measurement in Customs Administrations – What Can Be Measured, How, on What Cost, and with Which Benefits? | Juha Hintsa & Sangeeta Mohanty | EN |
| Measuring Trade Facilitation and Border Management Performance | Juha Hintsa & Toni Männistö | EN |
| Cross-border collaboration and security at the regional scale: Western Canada – U.S. Border |
Laurie Trautman | EN |
| Effects of Trade Facilitation on Sectoral Trade | Leila Baghdadi | EN |
| The Construction of Chinese Single Window | Ma Yao | EN |
| Reflections on Methods for Estimating Trade Misinvoicing—Approaching Consensus? | Matthew Salomon | EN |
| Globally Standardizing the Aeo Programme for Higher Utilization: Case of Vietnam | Nguyen Thi Khanh Hong | EN |
| Geo-Spatial Technologies Application To Customs | Olivier Francois | EN |
| Senior Customs Inspector | Raymond Mesumbe | FR |
| Cost/Performance Accounting | Robert Lussi | EN |
| Analyzing Export Operations in a Developing Economy: 360-degree View from Transaction-level Datasets | Salamat Ali | EN |
| Detecting Trade Misinvoicing: Price-Filter method vs. Partner-Country method | Simon Pak | EN |
| Trucking, Security and the Nafta Trade Zone | Todd Hataley | EN |
| Partnership between Academia and Customs: Practices in AP Region | Tong Hua | EN |
| Customs and tax cooperation in the EU | Walter de Wit | EN |
| Trade Facilitation and Legal Security Risk in Customs Compliance Management at International Trade in Goods Companies | Wieslaw Czyzowicz | EN |
| Standard and Infrastructure of TRS: The Chinese Experience | Xiaoping Jiang | EN |
| The Company Level Compliance Costs Model in the International Supply Chain | Yao Hua Tan | EN |
| Partnering with Private Sector and Academia for Organizational Development | Yeon Choi | EN |
| Data Mining in Detection of Customs Declaration Frauds | Zijie Fan | EN |
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