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Dossier COVID-19: Working with you through these challenging times

Kunio Mikuriya Secretary General, World Customs Organisation
June 30, 2020
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Dossier COVID-19: Working with you through these challenging times

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When it was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) that COVID-19 had become a pandemic, the WCO Secretariat’s management team quickly sprang into action, listing the urgent tasks to be done to support Customs administrations in managing the crisis and developing a business continuity plan.

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