NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024 9 THE JAMAICA Customs Agency (JCA) is delighted to partner with other Customs administrations globally in celebrating International Customs Day 2024, as it offers Customs an opportunity to bring its work into greater focus. This year’s theme, ‘Customs Engaging Traditional and New Partners with Purpose’, challenges Customs administrations to not only sustain traditional partnerships, but also to engage with new and emerging partners as we continue to navigate within a dynamic and ever-changing global environment. The JCA fully recognises the importance of staying abreast of these changes, by sustaining current partnerships and embracing new partners, in order to ensure continued optimal performance, in keeping with global trends and standards. The agency has consistently benefited from varying partnerships – traditional and new – which have resulted in improved efficiency, enhanced information exchange, and increased coordinated border management and operational processes, and further collaboration on various initiatives. All these are undertaken in order to provide excellent Customs services. So, what does purposeful partnership mean for the Jamaica Customs Agency? For Jamaica Customs, building and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships involve engagement, communication, collaboration, accountability, adaptation and commitment; we appreciate such partnerships, which, over the years, have contributed to the agency’s fulfilment of its core mandates of trade facilitation, border protection and revenue collection. We are aware that supporting and sustaining an efficient trade, logistics and a secure supply chain, as well as cohesive border management require the effective engagement of people and the collaboration of systems and processes. This can only be achieved through the building and sustenance of strategic partnerships with our relevant stakeholders. For us, the essence of partnership is people-centred. As a service-driven entity, certified in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System, the JCA places people – our employees and stakeholders – at the centre of our operations. It is people that drive partnerships. To this end, we pride ourselves in executing robust stakeholder engagements, and maintaining effective communication and connection with our The JCA places great value on forging, fostering and enhancing strong partnerships PLEASE SEE VALUE, 10 INT’L CUSTOMS DAY & CUSTOMS WEEK 2024 FEATURE
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