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Committee on Customs Valuation    
 
INFORMATION ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES  
Addendum  
At its meeting of 12 May 1995, the Committee on Customs Valuation agreed that greater 
transparency of technical assistance activities, pursuant to Article  20.3 of the Agreement on 
Implementation of Article  VII of the GATT 1994, would be ensured if the information prepared for 
the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation  (TCCV)  on such activities were also made available 
as WTO documents.  
 
This document contains a report  by the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO)  
providing information on technical assistance activities . 
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  REPORT TO THE WTO COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS VALUATION  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES  
UNDERTAKEN BY THE WCO  SECRETARIAT  
Period of 
dispatch  Recipient 
Countries  Subjects  Location  Number of 
Experts  
7 - 11 November 
2022 North Macedonia  National Workshop 
on Customs 
Valuation  Skopje  
(28 participants)  2  
16 - 20 January 
2023 Bosnia and 
Herzegovina  National Workshop 
on Customs 
Valuation  Banja Luka  
(48 participants)  
Hybrid  3  
5 - 9 February 
2023 Jordan  National Workshop 
on Customs 
Valuation  Amman Regional 
Training Centre 
(RTC)  
(19 participants)  3  
27 February - 3 
March 2023  Azerbaijan  National Workshop 
on Customs 
Valuation  Baku 
(42 participants)  2 
6 - 10 March 2023  Namibia  National Workshop 
on Customs 
Valuation  Windhoek  
(21 participants)  3  
27 - 31 March 
2023 Côte d 'Ivoire  Monitoring and 
Assessment Mission 
on Customs 
Valuation  Abidjan  2 
27 - 31 March 
2023 Guyana  Diagnostic Mission 
on Customs 
Valuation  Georgetown  2 
24 - 28 April 2023  Uzbekistan  PCA and Customs 
Valuation  Tashkent  2   
 
In addition  to the above activities facilitated by the WCO Secretariat, Dominican Republic, Japan , 
Morocco, the United States and Uruguay have conducted technical assistance/capacity building 
activities to support implementation of the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement .  
 
Details of the se technical assistance/capacity building activities are tabled below .  
 
Dominican Republic  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
18 August 2022  Risk Management for 
Customs Value control  Argentina  1 
21 March 2023 Risk in Customs Value 
Control  Ecuador  1 
 
Japan  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
12 October 2022  
22 November 2022  
13 December 2022  
20 December 2022  
28 February 2023  
6 March 2023  
30 March 2023  
24 April 2023  Customs Valuation  Myanmar   
(Virtual)  3 
 
7-11 November 2022   
17-21 April 2023  Customs Valuation  Pacific Islands  
(Fiji, Papua New 
Guinea, Samoa, Timor -
Leste, Tonga and 
Vanuatu)  3 G/VAL/8/Add.4 5 
 
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  Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
9 November 2022  
21 December 2022   
10 March 2023  PCA Myanmar  
(Virtual)  2  
 
5-8 December 2022   PCA and Customs 
Valuation  Lao People 's 
Democratic Republic  
(Virtual)  3  
 
23-26 January 2023   Customs Valuation  Democratic Republic of 
the Congo  
(Virtual)  4 
 
Morocco  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
13-17 March 2023   Customs Valuation 
and PCA   Gabon  2 
 
The United States  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
26-27 April 2023  Advance Ruling  Kosovo  2 
 
Uruguay  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number of Experts  
28 November to 9 
December 2022  Determination of 
the Customs Value  Bolivia  
(Virtual)  1 
 
 
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