On September 7, the State Customs Committee and the WCO will sign a memorandum of understanding on the use of the State Customs Committee’s Cynological Center as the Regional Cynological Center of the WCO. On the same day, the Academy of the State Customs Committee and the department of excise and customs of Münster University of Germany sign an action plan on cooperation in science and education. The the official opening ceremony will be held of The WCO’s Cynological Training Center in Baku and the 5th all-round competition among canine structures of the customs services of CIS countries will start off.
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov, Chairman of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev, Secretary General of the WCO Kunio Mikuriya, Vice Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service Don-Hyun Lee will attend the opening of the WCO 10th annual PICARD conference on September 8.
On the first day of the event, Erick Mask (US), Noble Prize laureate and professor of Harvard University, and Michael Moore (United Kingdom), Director General of the International Centre for Tax and Development, will read out their reports titled “Why global markets failed to reduce inequity in developing countries?” and “International cooperation: comparison of trade and taxes” respectively.
The conference will then go on with the sessions “Factors of encouraging customs employees” and “Global Value Chain”.
ON September 9, sessions will be dedicated to the issues “Innovations in the customs sector”, “Global Value Chains”, “Issues of income and tariff”, “Forgery and facts”. Edward Prescott (US), professor of Arizona State University and Nobel Prize laureate, will deliver the main reporting speech.
On September 10, the conference will come to an end with the sessions “Forgery and facts”, “Protections of property rights on cultural examples”, “Management of customs risks”, “Informal trade”. Finn Kidland, Nobel Prize laureate and professor of the University of California situated in Santa Barbara, will deliver the main reporting speech on “the impact of national political environment on innovative activity and formation of equity”.
On September 11, Baku will host the official opening ceremony of the Regional Office of the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU).
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