Represented and negotiated for Mauritius at the COMESA Heads of Customs, the SADC Sub-Committee on Customs Cooperation and the Indian Ocean Commission, managing migration to the COMESA Common Tariff Nomenclature and Common External Tariff, domestication of the customs management regulations, and work on preferential origin, non-tariff barriers and coordinated border management..
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Led some 650 officers and around one billion US dollars of annual customs, excise, import VAT and environmental tax revenue.
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Chaired the trade facilitation workstream of the five-country programme, driving the removal of barriers, the promotion of services trade and resource mobilisation, and coordinating cross-country action plans and monitoring..
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Led delivery of the Malawi Trade Portal: end-to-end collation of the regulatory dataset, legal and procedural mapping, formatting and upload, and the content governance needed to keep the information current and accessible to traders..
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At the invitation of the Minister of Finance, sat on the four-member panel that selected the Commissioners for Customs and General Services of the Office Togolais des Recettes, the first semi-autonomous revenue authority in francophone West Africa..
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Represented twenty-four administrations on the WCO Council and Policy Commission, chaired the regional Council meetings, and oversaw the regional capacity-building architecture of the Regional Office for Capacity Building, three regional training centres and the intelligence liaison office, including the Finland-funded regional capacity-building project..
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Supported the scheduling and verification of WTO commitments and delivered a five-day workshop in Windhoek for more than fifty participants on interpreting schedules, identifying market-access opportunities and barriers, and preparing negotiating positions..
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Developed and taught modules on valuation, classification, origin, intellectual property and trade procedures, with practical exercises to embed the competencies required by the scheme..
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Lead customs trainer on a three-million-euro capability-building programme, delivering technical, managerial and institutional training and creating a competency-based curriculum for sustained professionalisation..
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Ex-post evaluation of a forty-million-euro budget-support programme, assessing improvements in trade operations and export competitiveness and producing evidence-based recommendations for the design of the successor programme..
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