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Customs authorities of South Korea and China agreed last week on a mutual recognition of their programs identifying secure operators.
The Korea Customs Service implemented a full-fledged AEO program in April 2009 while China had transformed the AEO concept into an internal program named Measures on Classified Management of Enterprises （MCME）which entered into forced in April 2008.
Mutual recognition is one of the facilitations foreseen in the AEO program. Once the MRA was concluded, AEOs in one country would receive clearance benefits at the same level with AEOs in the counterpart country.
South Korea is in the process of negotiating mutual recognitions of these programs with a number of countries including India, Israel, Malaysia and Mexico.
