The following is excerpted from a 6 October 2011 report by the World Customs Organization.

At the invitation of the Kiel Global Instiute, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya spoke at the Global Economic Symposium held in Kiel, Germany, on 5 and 6 October 2011 to help policy makers better understand the role of Customs and of the WCO.

This report is available in its entirety at:

http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=321

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