{"id":28200,"date":"2015-01-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/01\/20150126_183942.shtml"},"modified":"2015-01-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:00:00","slug":"fs-celebrates-customs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/01\/26\/fs-celebrates-customs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"FS celebrates customs day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Finance\/Finance_06.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Financial Secretary John C Tsang officiated at a cocktail reception today to celebrate International Customs Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department celebrates the day annually since it entered the World Customs Organisation in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is coordinated border management.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Coordinated border management is a multilateral approach to lowering business costs, removing trade barriers and stimulating balanced growth. It is also central to international efforts in eradicating illegal activities, enhancing customs efficiency and nurturing a culture of compliance with the law, and customs-business partnership,\u201d Mr Tsang said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also elaborated on how coordinated border management contributes to strengthening Hong Kong's role as an international trading and logistics hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang also presented the organisation\u2019s Certificate of Merit to 19 officers of Hong Kong Customs and a representative of Hongkong Post in recognition of their significant contribution towards realising the concept of coordinated border management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Finance\/Finance_06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Financial Secretary John C Tsang officiated at a cocktail reception today to celebrate International Customs Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department celebrates the day annually since it entered the World Customs Organisation in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is coordinated border management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\"Coordinated border management is a multilateral approach to lowering business costs, removing trade barriers and stimulating balanced growth. It is also central to international efforts in eradicating illegal activities, enhancing customs efficiency and nurturing a culture of compliance with the law, and customs-business partnership,&rdquo; Mr Tsang said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also elaborated on how coordinated border management contributes to strengthening Hong Kong's role as an international trading and logistics hub.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang also presented the organisation&rsquo;s Certificate of Merit to 19 officers of Hong Kong Customs and a representative of Hongkong Post in recognition of their significant contribution towards realising the concept of coordinated border management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28201,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions\/28201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}