Through its capacity building programme to members, the OCO with financial support under the PACER Plus Project Readiness Package conducted a PACER Plus ROO Workshop & legislative consultation in Niue from 7-8 August, 2019 attended by officials from the Niue...
In collaboration with the Vanuatu Department of Customs and Inland Revenue and United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), the OCO organized an automation study visit for 10 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) (Cooks Islands, Federated State of...
The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) in collaboration with the Vanuatu Department of Customs & Inland Revenue (DCIR) organized a Regional PACER Plus Transparency Provision Workshop in Port Vila, Vanuatu from the 22-24 July, 2019. The workshop was opened by Mr....
(Excerpt: The Guardian Article, The new drug highway: Pacific Islands at center of cocaine trafficking boom, dated 24 June 2019) It is the drug route you’ve never heard of: a multi billion-dollar operation involving cocaine and methamphetamine being packed into the...
The 21st Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) annual conference commenced on 13th May, 2019 in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI), hosted by the CNMI Customs division with the theme “A united Pacific working towards a common solution”. The conference...
OCO in partnership with the USPTO had 4 of its members attend an Asia Regional Workshop on Enforcement Against Trade in Counterfeit Food, Beverages, Cosmetics, and Fast Moving Consumer Goods, which was held on April 2-5, 2019, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and was...