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| Korea Customs Service Commissioner Kim Yung-moon |
Korea Customs Service (KCS) Commissioner Kim Yung-moon will discuss effective measures to crack down on illegal trade with his international counterparts at the World Customs Organization (WCO) Council, the KCS said Tuesday.
The KCS said Kim will attend the meeting from June 24 to 29 in Brussels, Belgium.
The WCO, comprised of 183 countries representing over 99 percent of international trade, holds the annual five-day meeting to discuss wide-ranging customs-related issues.
This year's agenda include ways to strengthen overall customs clearance procedures as part of an effective crackdown on smuggling attempts.
The international body will also discuss ways to better seek accountability against what essentially is the "dumping" of garbage traded under the guise of legitimate imports or exports of recyclables.
The joint effort is to prevent a recurrence of a shameful incident involving a Korean export firm that took back from the Philippines what turned out to be a combined 6,300 tons of garbage, not plastic as described in the customs filings in 2018.
More specific measures will be drawn up to punish companies with the full use of detailed data logs preserved with the respective government authorities.
