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ORGANIZATIONG/VAL/N/4/EGY/2
19 January 2001
(01-0278)
Committee on Customs Valuation Original:  English
NOTIFICATION CONCERNING THE DECISION UNDER PARAGRAPH 1
OF ANNEX III OF THE AGREEMENT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
ARTICLE VII OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON
TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994
EGYPT
The following communication, dated 17 January 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Egypt.
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With reference to the Customs Valuation Committee's Decision adopted on 21 July 2000,
delaying further Egypt's application of the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation
until 30 June 2001, Egypt is to report by 30 January 2001 to the Committee on Customs Valuation on
the progress in fulfilling the work program in Attachment 1, and on the status of its implementation of
the WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation as well as the terms and conditions of this Decision.
Enclosed is Egypt's status report regarding th e progress achieved up to date in implementing
the said program.G/VAL/N/4/EGY/2
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STATUS REPORT REGARDING THE PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN IMPLEMENTING
EGYPT'S WORK PROGAMME IN THE FIELD OF CUSTOMS VALUATION
Subject Progress achieved
Legislative amendments
and issuance of related by-
laws, decisions and
regulations• The necessary legislative amendments have been introduced by the
Presidential Decree No. 160 for the year 2000, amending someprovisions of the customs law No. 66 of 1963, especially those
related to articles 22, 23 on valuation.
• It is to be noted that the draft executive by-law of the amended
legislation had been prepared and is now being circulated to
competent governmental and private sector bodies for comments.
Restructuring the
organizational framework
of the customs valuation,
legal affairs and reviews
departments.• Egypt had already finalized the structural framework for the legal
affairs department and the reviews department, yet the restructuringof the valuation research department is still underway.
Setting the necessarytraining programs for the
customs employees as
follows:
• Providing scientific
training material and
trainers
• Preparing the training
sites and providing
them with thenecessary equipment
• Tackling the
theoretical and
practical phases of the
training programs that
had to be provided toaround 5000
employees.• Training material and trainers were provided, training of 1250
employees was finalized to date, and the rest will finalize theircourses according to the time schedule agreed upon in this concern.
• Training courses are being set as well for those dealing with
customs authorities (traders, businessmen, etc.) to explain the
Agreement on Customs Valuation as well as the legislative
amendments introduced to the Law 66/1963 in accordance.
• Ten senior customs officials received training courses in the U.S.
and other countries to study the application of customs valuationmechanisms, and benefit from the experience of these countries.
• Some of the training facilities were provided and the rest will be
provided to all customs authorities employees within the deadlines
set forth in the work progam in major cities, namely Cairo,
Alexandria, Port Said, Suez and Arish.
• A booklet containing ways for and basis of determining the value in
accordance with the Customs Valuation Agreement had been
published and will be distributed shortly amongst all customs
authorities employees, in addition to a number of circular brochurescontaining further explanation as regards the implementation of the
said means.
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