Customs Matters: Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World

June 21, 2022

Customs administrations around the world face new challenges: an increasing volume of international trade, a revolution in new technologies, and fundamental changes in business models. The benefits of a well-performing customs administration are clear, as is the need to develop efficient, effective, fair, and modern customs administrations.

Customs Matters analyzes the many changes and challenges customs administrations face and proposes ways to address them. By offering a cross-sectional view of the main aspects of customs administration, the book guides policymakers and customs officials as they evaluate the current state of their customs system with a view to developing, reinforcing, or relaunching their own roadmaps for customs modernization.

The discussion explores the many changes and challenges customs administrations face and how to address some of them as customs officials evaluate the current state of their customs system with a view to developing, reinforcing, or relaunching their own roadmaps for customs modernization.

Read more in the IMF’s book Customs Matters: Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World

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Agenda

Monday, June 21, 2022 


10:30 – 11:30 ET

Login will start at 10:00 am ET via Zoom

10:30–10:35 am

 


Opening Remarks:

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF 

Andrea Lemgruber, Chief, Revenue Administration 2, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department

10:35–10:40 am

Presentation“Strengthening Customs' Capacity”

Vitor Gaspar, Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department

10:40–10:50 am 

Presentation – "Why Customs Matters"

Katherine Baer, Deputy Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department

10:50–11:25 am

 

 

 

 

 

 




Panel Discussion:

Moderator:

Andrea Lemgruber, Chief, Revenue Administration 2, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department.

Panelists:

Caroline Freund, Dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy

Konstantinos Kaiopoulos, WCO Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs Directorates

Julio Fernández Frutos, Director General, Paraguay Customs

11:25–11:30 am 

Summary of Key Points and Closing Remarks

Vitor Gaspar, Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department