The World Customs Organization (WCO) celebrates each year, the International Customs Day. “Smart’’ borders for seamless Trade, Travel and Transport " is the theme chosen by the international community to celebrate this day, Saturday, January, 2019. 

The activities of three single points of goods clearance (GUD) and three branches of Congo postal bank (BPC) were officially launched, on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 January 2019, at Impfondo, Mokabi and Bétou, in the Likouala division, by Henri Loundou, cabinet director, representing Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance and Budget. 

The new directors general of Customs and Indirect Taxation (DGDDI), Guénolé Mbongo Koumou, and of Taxes and State property, Ludovic Itoua, were installed in their functions, Friday, January 4, 2019, by Henri Loundou, cabinet director, representing Calixte Nganongo, Ministry of Finance. 

The re-installation  of Zéphirin Iloki, as Director of Administrative affairs (DAAF) at the General Directorate of Customs and Indirect Taxation, Hilaire Mavoungou, Budget Adiviser, representing the Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, took place on Friday 19 October 2018.

The Director of cabinet of the Ministry of Finance and and Budget, Henri Loundou, installed in a tense atmosphere and under the supervision of the gendarmerie and police services, Aaron Kounenguika, chief customs inspector, to the position of Director of customs Investigations (replacing LauricLoembé) and Serge Victor Ignoumba, chief customs inspector, to the position of senior customs inspector as Director of Regulation and Litigation (replacing M. Makita).

In Nkayi, the capital city of the department of Bouenza where sugar is produced, Emmanuel Akouala Mpan, Principal Private Secretary of the Miniter of Finance an Budget, officially opened the one window for customs clearance. The inauguration of the one window for which the ribbon was cut by the prefect Jules Monkala-Tchoumou, took place at the same time as the opening of the branch of the Banque Postale du Congo (BPC) where the one window is located.

Located in the premises of the customs office of the department of Lekoumou, in the borough of Moussanda in Sibiti, the one window was inaugurated on March 30, 2018.

On March 29, 2018 the Principal Private Secretary, Emmanuel Akouala-Mpan, representing the Minister of Finance and Budget, honourable Calixte Nganongo, officially opened  two new one windows for customs clearance of goods.

The 8th Meeting of Focal Points for the Capacity Building of Customs Administrations of the West and Central African Region of the World Customs Organization (WCO) took place from Wednesday 25 to Friday 27, October 2017 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. 

From 25-27 October, 2017,  the 20 or so participants in the 8th meeting of the focal points for capacity building and those responsible for reforming customs administrations in the West and Central African region of the World Customs Organization (WCO) will share their experience in customs reform and draw up new perspectives for the next Regional Strategic Plan 2018-2022.