G/VAL/8/Add.3 8 
 
10 May 2019 
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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 technical 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  VT1179E1a . 
 
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  ANNEX I  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY ME MBERS  
1  JAPAN 
Japan has dispatched experts and accepted trainees to enhance the knowledge of 
Customs  Valuation/Post -Clearance Audit (PCA) and to support implementation of the WTO Valuation 
Agreement.  
 
The d etails of the technical assistance/capacity building activi ties which Japan has carried out since 
the last session and is planning to implement by 30 April 2019 , are indicated  below.  
 
(a) Dispatch of experts  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient country  Number of 
experts  
29 October to  
2 November 2018  Valuation  Botswana, Malawi,  
Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe  2 
3 to 7 December 2018  Valuation  Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam,  
Kiribati, Niue, Papua New  
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, 
Vanuatu  2 
    
28 January to  
1 February 2019  PCA and  
Valuation  Lao People's Democratic Republic  2 
4 to 8 March 2019  PCA Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda  1 
18 to 22 March 2019  Valuation  Botswana, Malawi,  
Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe  1 
 
(b) Acceptance of trainees   
 
Period of training course  Course  Country of trainees  Number of 
trainees  
3 to 7 December 2018  Valuation  Cambodia  10 
4 to 6 December 2018  PCA Benin  3 
16 to 18 January 2019  PCA Ghana  3 
12 to 14 March 2019  Valuation  Malawi  3 
 
(c) Technical assistance by teleconference system  
 
Period of training course  Course  Country of trainees  Number of 
trainees  
4 times, from January to 
April 2019 (5 times in total 
by June 2019)  PCA Myanmar (Republic of the Union 
of) 5  
(Maximum)  
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  ANNEX II  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY THE SECRETARIAT  
Period  Recipient Country  Subjects  Duration  Location  
1-5 October 2018  Bahamas  National Workshop on  
Customs Valuation  5 days  Nassau,  
Bahamas  
1-5 October 2018  East and  Southern  
Africa (ESA)  region  National Train -the- 
Trainer Workshop on  
Customs Valuation  5 days  Port Louis,  
Mauritius  
8-12 October  2018 Rwanda  Advanced National  
Workshop on Customs  
Valuation  5 days  Kigali,  
Rwanda  
29 October to  
2 November 2018  Botswana,  Malawi,  
Mozambique,  Zambia 
and 
Zimbabwe  Regional Promotional  
Workshop on the  
Revenue Package  5 days Lusaka,  
Zambia  
12-16 November  
2018 Lesotho  Training of Trainers on  
Customs Valuation  5 days  Maseru,  
Lesotho  
13-17 November  
2018 Togo Training of Trainers on 
Customs Valuation and Tariff 
Classification  5 Days  Lomé, Togo 
1-5 October  2018 Bahamas  National Workshop on 
Customs Valuation  5 days  Nassau , 
Bahamas  
26-30 November  
2018  Thailand  Advanced National Workshop 
on Transfer Pricing and 
Customs Valuation  5 days  
Bangkok, 
Thailand  
3-7 December  2018  Fiji, Papua New 
Guinea, Samoa, 
Timor -Leste, Tonga 
and Vanuatu  Sub-Regional Workshop on 
the Revenue Package, Tariff 
Classification and Customs 
Valuation  5 days  Suva, 
Fiji 
17-21 December  
2018  Niger  Diagnostic of Niger 
Customs’ Infrastructure for 
Work on Customs Valuation 
and Tariff Classification of 
Imported Goods  5 days  Niamey, 
Niger  
18-22 January  2019  Colombia  National Workshop on 
Customs Valuation and 
Determination of Transfer 
Pricing  5 days  Bogotá, 
Colombia  
4-8 March 2019  Countries of the 
Asia/Pacific region  Regional Workshop on 
Customs Valuation and 
Determination of Transfer 
Pricing   
5 days  Yangzhou, 
China  
11-15 March 2019  Bahamas  National Train -the- Trainer 
Workshop   
5 days  Nassau, 
Bahamas  
25-27 March 2019  Montenegro  National Workshop on 
Customs Valuation  3 days  Podgorica, 
Montenegro  
1-3 April 2019  Egypt  Diagnostic Mission  3 days  Cairo, Egypt  
 
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