World Customs Organisation Head visits GRA

From right are GRA Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia and WCO Secretary-General Kunio Mikuriya.

Contact between the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the World Customs Organisation (WCO) reached a high point in March when the Organisation’s Secretary-General, Ambassador Kunio Mikuriya paid a two-day visit.

A release from the GRA yesterday said that Mikuriya, who has been serving as the WCO Secretary General since 2009, was in the company of Sharon Davies, Technical Attaché, Capacity Building Directorate when he met Commissioner-General of the GRA Godfrey Statia and senior officials in Customs Excise and Trade Operations on March 19th and 20th.

The release said that the two sides discussed national and regional support to implement the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement which Guyana ratified in November 2015.

Day two of the visit