Customs in the 21st Century
+ Globally Networked Customs
+ Better Coordinated Border Management
+ Intelligence--driven Risk Management
+ Customs Business Partnership
+ Standards and tools
+ Enabling technologies
+ Enabling legal competence
+ Knowledge--based and customer based customer--oriented culture
+ Capacity building
+ Integrity
Single window
One--stop service
+ Traders submit data once to the designated agency which circulate data among relevant agencies
+ Coordinated inspection and clearance
Customs best practice
+ Streamline procedures and data requirement
+ Better use of information technology
+ Risk management –selectivity
+ Audit--based control
What are lacking
+ Accurate commercial data in a timely manner
+ Transport and border infrastructure
+ Information technology to assess the risk
+ Coordination with other border agencies
+ Banking system (payment of duties, guarantee)
+ Compliance culture and integrity
[From a presentation by WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, at a World Bank function in Geneva December 2, 2009.]