WCO Members confer and act on trade facilitation, e-commerce, and security at the June 2015 WCO Council sessions

During the 125th/126th Sessions of the WCO Council, which took place in June of this year, Heads of Customs administrations representing the 180 Members of the WCO conferred on many issues, including but not limited to, trade facilitation technical assistance and capacity building under the WCO Mercator Programme, e-commerce, and security, especially the adoption of a third pillar to the WCO SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade (SAFE Framework) on its 10th anniversary. In this article, I take up each of these topics in turn.