Custom Modernization Handbook

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• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Overview

Cross-cutting Issues

• Strategy for Customs Modernization
• Human Resources and Organizational Issues in Customs
• Legal Framework for Customs Operations and Enforcement Issues
• Integrity in Customs
• Managing Risk in the Customs Context

Lessons from a select set of Customs Reform Initiatives

• Policy and Operational Lessons Learned from Eight Country Case Studies
• Two Decades of World Bank Lending for Customs Reform: Trends in Project, Dsign, Project Implementation,and Lessons Learned

Guidelines on Issues that affect Custom's Operational Trade Facilitation

• Customs Valuation in Developing Countries and the World Trade organization Valuation Rules
• Rules of Origin, Trade, and Customs
• Duty, Relief and Exemption Control
• Transit and the Special Case of Landlocked Countries
• The Role of Customs in Cargo Security
• The Role of Information Technology in Customs Modernization