Woke up to a
very rainy Brussels – I have my umbrella and raincoat though, us English are
always prepared for bad weather; not sure what I’ll wear if we get brilliant
sun shine though. So, after a very wet walk around the corner I arrived
for day two at the WCO and another day on Trade Facilitation.
I learnt a
lot. Useful stuff? – We’ll see. I’ve been sat here at the computer for 10
mins now trying to think of another way of saying it but I can’t. It was
boring today. Apart from a short group quiz (which was fun, even though I
didn’t win) it was just listening to people running through lists of rules and
regulations in both English and French. I have a terrible habit when
listening to other people presenting, I try and sketch them, sad I know. It
doesn’t mean I’m not listening, it usually helps me concentrate – anyway today
I started sketching the delegates too. Enough said.
But it was
informative, I am certain I could write a paper on the Revised Kyoto Convention
(RKC) – probably in both French and English, and you know how good my French
is! Actually, I do have to write a paper on the RKC for the Institute of
Export – that’s lucky then. Oh, yes, met some USA and European delegates
today but they weren’t in the Trade Facilitation sessions. Also told that
a lot of delegates from developing countries had been sponsored to attend –
explains the imbalance a bit. I did wonder, as we were going through the RKC
recommendation on the Simplification and Harmonisation of Customs Procedures
how many of the attendee’s countries could afford to follow these
recommendation. Of the 179 countries that are members of the WCO 89 have
contracted to the RKC – we were shown the list (one of many lists) and I didn’t
see many African or South American countries on there but then neither was
Israel. Here’s a link if you want to know more about this really
excellent initiative RKC
READ MORE
Tomorrow I
move over onto Harmonised System classification work – I can’t say I’m sorry;
I’m not sure I could have found enough to draw to get me through 2 more days of
Trade Facilitation.
Forgot to say
– lunch was good today; almost made up for the restaurant meal last
night. Tonight a couple
of us are trying the Grill next-door. Fingers crossed.
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