Korea-Japan Customs Chiefs Meeting Resumes After 7 Years: "Strengthening Cooperation on Trade Revitalization"

The Korea-Japan Customs Commissioners' Meeting resumed after seven years.

On the 8th, the Korea Customs Service announced that the day before, Ko Gwang-hyo, Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service, met with Edajima Kazuhiko (江島　一彦), Director-General of the Customs Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Finance, in Seoul to hold the "32nd Korea-Japan Customs Commissioners' Meeting."

On the 7th, Kwanghyo Ko, Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service (left), and Kazuhiko Ejima, Director-General of the Customs Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Finance (right), are exchanging greetings ahead of the Korea-Japan Customs Commissioners' Meeting. Photo by Korea Customs Service

The Korea-Japan Customs Commissioners' Meeting was last held in November 2016 in Tokyo, Japan, and has resumed this year after seven years.

At the meeting, the customs authorities mainly discussed customs cooperation to revitalize bilateral trade and joint measures to block high-risk transactions between the two countries.

Customs cooperation to promote trade focuses on activating e-commerce trade between the two countries and expanding the use of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to facilitate trade.

They also shared awareness of the seriousness of cross-border high-risk transactions such as drugs and agreed to strengthen cooperation in exchanging risk information and conducting joint crackdowns in the future.

Taking advantage of the Korea-Japan Customs Commissioners' Meeting, the Korea Customs Service plans to hold customs commissioners' meetings with major trading partners such as Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia in the second half of this year to continue customs diplomacy activities supporting domestic export companies.

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