WTO and WIPO Agree to Cooperate with WCO on Capacity Building
World Customs Organization Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya met World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy in Geneva on January 20, 2011 to discuss further cooperation between the two Organizations. During their meeting they touched on a wide range of areas as Customs provides infrastructure for trade by connecting economies at borders. The discussions included implementation of the results of the trade facilitation (TF) negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda, rules of origin, the aid for trade initiative and trade-related research.
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Both Secretary General Mikuriya and Director General Lamy agreed that stronger cooperation in research was useful to better understand global trade, particularly in complex but crucial trade fields such as rules of origin.