Introduction...........................................................................................................................3
1.Basic information...............................................................................................................4
1.1Vision Statement..............................................................................................................4
1.2 Mission Statement..........................................................................................................4
1.3WCO Goals......................................................................................................................4
2. History...............................................................................................................................6
3. Structure of the organisation.............................................................................................7
4.WCO members................................................................................................................11
5. European Union and World Customs Organization.......................................................14
6. WCO documents.............................................................................................................15
Summary.............................................................................................................................18
References..........................................................................................................................19
Introduction
In modern nowadays world economy we have open market with free trage, we can see globalization, internationalization, integration between countries. These mentioned forses are considered to be more positive than negative. Whenever with international trade here arises differencies between trading countries: different standards, limitations, requirements, nomenclature systems. To
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