Malawi Customs Agents to Receive Accredited Training

Malawi customs agents will be offered accredited training as part of a collaboration launched Dec. 2 between the Malawi Revenue Authority and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, according to a press release. The collaboration will “introduce a new licensing framework” for clearing agents and provide them with a training course and exam to ensure they can appropriately “facilitate trade” in line with Malawi regulations. The training, which will start in late 2020, will be mandatory for all customs clearing agents, the press release said. New requirements for customs officers will be “phased in over an adjustment period” to give agents “adequate time” to become licensed. The project will support Malawi’s efforts to implement the World Trade Organization’s Trade facilitation Agreement, which it ratified in 2017.