Day 2 of SIL 2019 in Barcelona. Today AICE 2019 starts. The annual global meeting of the World FZO.

It is time to launch SafeZone, the global compliance management programme (AEO) for Free Zones.

Soon time to rock.

A trade deal between China and the United States is “90 per cent completed”, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said just three days before a high-stakes meeting between the countries’ two top leaders.

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Mnuchin said this week’s Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump are expected to meet, would be “a very important G20”. “We were about 90 per cent of the way there [to a trade deal] and I think there’s a path to complete this,” he said, without specifying the remaining 10 per cent.

Great to be back in Barcelona. First day at SIL delivering a Key Note Speech at the III International AEO Congress.

Antonio Llobet President, International Association AEO, Customs & Logistics opening the III International Congress of Authorized Economic Operators at SIL in Barcelona today.

Met my colleague and friend since a long time, Pilar Jurado, Director General of Spanish Customs at SIL2019.

I also participated in a meeting with OECD and did a presentation.

A good first day. Now we are looking forward to tomorrow.