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International development consultant, a largely unknown profession

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 11:31

With more than 15 years of experience in projects of technical assistance to developing countries, Danilo Desiderio, CEO of Desiderio Consultants talks about the main tasks and challenges of this business. Read the full article here.

Desiderio Consultants launches new blog

Saturday, 05 October 2019 21:17

Desiderio Consultants Ltd. has launched a blog featuring discussion and analysis in the areas of: 1) customs, 2) transport facilitation and 3) trade facilitation, with a particular focus on Africa. The aim of the blog is to share experience among experts in these fields and learn from each other, so to increase skills levels and further improve business/employment prospects. We also encourage to propose topics of discussion referred to one of the above 3 areas. For more information visit our blog.

Data analysis techniques for enhancing the performance of Customs

Wednesday, 02 October 2019 05:11

WCJ "Data analysis techniques for enhancing the performance of Customs", article by Danilo Desiderio published on the World Customs Journal, Volume 13, Number 2, September 2019 (Section 1- Academic Contributions). The article, available here, explains how data collection and analysis techniques, if properly used by Customs, can help such administration to act in a targeted way and more efficiently.

Bilateral vs. multilateral cross-border road transport permits

Tuesday, 01 October 2019 10:52

To date, many States worldwide have in force national laws governing the circulation over their respective roads of vehicles from other countries carrying passengers or freight for commercial reasons. These laws are mainly aimed to protect their national transport industry by restricting the entry in their territory of road hauliers from neighbouring countries. In practice, this is done via the implementation of a permit regime where foreign road-transport hauliers are required to obtain a special circulation permit from the authorities of the country where they want to move with their cargo or passengers. The permit must be held in the vehicle and be showed to the enforcement agencies in the country of circulation on their request. In most cases the permit allows them to follow fixed itineraries or to use only particular transport routes, so reducing the traditional flexibility which is typical of road transport.

Trade facilitation as a means to promote regional integration

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 10:27

Over the last 70 years, since the establishment of the GATT (1947), tariffs have progressively declined as a consequence of the increasing number of trade agreements concluded among States, both at bilateral and multilateral level, with the aim to abolish or reduce customs duties and other taxes with equivalent effect applied especially on imports.