G/VAL/8/Add.39  
 
15 October  2019 
(19-6662) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Customs Valuation    
 
 
INFORMATION ON TECHN ICAL ASSISTANCE ACTI VITIES  
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 documents 
prepared for the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation on such activities were also made 
available as WTO documents.  
 
This document provides information on tec hnical assistance activities carried out by the Secretariat 
of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and its Members, as contained in the annex es of 
WCO document  VT1218E1a . 
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  ANNEX I  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTA KEN BY ME MBERS  
1  UNITED STATES  
(a) Dispatch of Experts  
 
Recipient 
Country  Course  Period of Dispatch  Number of 
Experts  
Egypt  Workshop on Customs Valuation - Cairo 14 to 16 July 2019  2 
Egypt  
 Regional Customs Valuation Workshop - 
Alexandria  18 to 19 August 2019  1 
Egypt   Regional Customs Valuation Workshop - Port Said  21 to 22 August 2019  1 
 
2  JAPAN  
Japan has dispatched experts and accepted trainees to enhance the knowledge of Customs 
Valuation/Post -Clearance Audit (PCA) and to support the implementation of the WTO Valuation 
Agreement.  
The details of the technical assistance/capacity building activities, which Japan has carried out since 
the last session and is planning to implement by 31 October 2019, are listed below.   
(a) Dispatch of Experts  
Period of Dispatch  Course  Recipient Country or Region  Number of 
Experts  
29 April to 3 May 2019  Valuation  Bhutan  1 
13 May 2019 * PCA  Japan  
(for Myanmar Customs)  4 
3 to 7 June 2019  PCA Philippines  2 
25 June 2019 * PCA Japan  
(for Myanmar Customs)  3 
30 September to  
4 October 2019  PCA Tanzania  2 (planned)  
19 to 27 October 2019  Valuation  Botswana  2 (planned)  
* JICA TV meeting  
(b) Acceptance of Trainees  
Period of Dispatch  Course  Country of Trainees  Number of 
Experts  
17 to 20 June 2019  PCA and Valuation  Lao People's Democratic Republic  10 
7 to 11 October 2019  PCA and Valuation  Myanmar (Republic of the Union of)  11 (planned ) 
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  ANNEX II  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE SE CRETARIAT  
Period  Recipient Countries  Subjects  Location  Number 
of Experts  
24 to 28 June 2019  Armenia, Belarus, 
Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyz  Republic , 
Russian  Federation, 
Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan, 
Uzbekistan  Sub-Regional 
Workshop on Customs 
Valuation and 
Harmonized System 
Classification  Nur-Sultan,  
Kazakhstan (51 
participants)  1 
14 to 16 July 2019  Egypt  National Customs 
Valuation Workshop  Cairo,  Egypt (30 
participants)  1 
22 to 26 July 2019  Burundi, Comoros, 
Madagascar, Mauritius, 
Rwanda  Regional Workshop 
(East and Southern 
Africa - ESA) on the 
Harmonized System, 
Customs Valuation and 
the Revenue Package  Mauritius  
(14 participants)  2 
18 to 19 August 2019  Egypt  National Customs 
Valuation Workshop  Alexandria, Egypt 
(50 participants)  1 
21 to 22 August 2019  Egypt  National Customs 
Valuation Workshop  Port Said, Egypt 
(50 participants)  1 
 
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