At the annual assembly of the Council World Customs Organization (WCO) in June, Ricardo Treviño Chapa from Mexico was re-elected Deputy Secretary General of the WCO for a second five year term.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization with 184 member countries headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

We are spending the summer – again – at our place in Boulouris-sur-mer, outside Saint-Raphael, in Provence, France.

It is great to be back, post the pandemic. Love it here.

There will be a change in the leadership of UK since Prime Minuster Boris Johnson yesterday decided to step down. the PM has had a long row of external as well as internal challenges during a period that likely been one of the list challenging in s long time.

There will now be a Conservative party leadership contest to replace him as party leader and Prime Minister of United Kingdom. I

f and how this will effect the development of the new UK border remains to be seen.