Quickly locate details of the amendments introduced by the WCO, effective January 1, 2002, which include provisions addressing:
Environmental impacts
• Electronic waste (e-waste)
• Gases controlled under the Kigali Amendment of the Montreal Protocol
Changing trade patterns
• Smartphones
• Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)
• Novel tobacco and nicotine-based products
Technology & product innovations
• Heavy-duty vehicles with electric motors.
• 3D printers
Health & Medical Research
• Rapid diagnostic kits
• Placebos and clinical trial kits
• Cell cultures and cell therapy
Fight against terrorism
• Dual use goods
Materials controlled under international conventions
• Chemicals controlled by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention;
• Hazardous chemicals controlled under the Rotterdam Convention;
• Persistent organic pollutants controlled under the Stockholm Convention; and
• Fentanyl-opioid substances and their derivatives controlled by the International Narcotics Control Board
