G/VAL/8/Add.31  
 
29 September 2015  
(15-5034) Page: 1/3  
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 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 annexes of WCO 
document VT1010E1a.   
 
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  ANNEX I 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY MEMBERS  
1  CANADA 
From 4 to 22 May 2015, Canada provided technical assistance to Colombia’s National Tax and 
Customs Agency (Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales-DIAN), as part of the Canada-
Americas Trade-Related Technical Assistance Program (CATRTA). 
The main objectives of the assistance provided we re to explore a valuation verification simulation 
and guide the participants through activities de signed to encourage the verification thinking 
process required to perform valuation verifications. 
 2  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
(a)  Acceptance of trainees 
 
 
Period of 
training course 
  
Course  
Country of 
trainees  
Number of trainees 
17-26/08/2015   U.S. Consultation on the 
WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement   Pakistan 
 15 
 
3  JAPAN 
 Japan has dispatched experts to improve 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 30 September 2015, are listed below: 
 
(a) Dispatch of Experts 
 
Date of Dispatch Course Recipient Country Number of 
Experts 
24-28/05/2015 Valuation Course in Maldives Maldives  1 
 31/08- 4/09/2015 Valuation Course in Myanmar   Myanmar 2 
31/08-4/09/2015 Valuation Course in Uganda Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, 
Rwanda, Uganda 2 
3/08-4/09/2015 Valuation and PCA Course in 
Singapore Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, 
Mozambique, Namibia, 
Seychelles, Swaziland, 
Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, 
Zimbabwe, South Africa 2 
28/09/-2/10/2015 PCA Course in Belarus Belarus, Russia, Armenia,  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan 1 
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  ANNEX II 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE SECRETARIAT 
Period Recipient 
Country Subject Duration Location 
1-5/06/2015 14 Asia/Pacific 
Region 
Countries Regional Training Workshop for 
diagnostic facilitators specialized in tariff 
and trade affairs and to promote the 
new Revenue Package materials 5 days China 
23-27/05 & 
1-5/06/ 2015  Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo (DRC)  Customs Valuation Training Seminar for 
experts and traine rs from Congolese 
customs  10 days  DRC 
22-26/06/2015  Moldova  National Training Workshop on Customs 
Valuation  5 days  Moldova  
27-31/07/2015  Ghana  Assistance with setting up a Customs 
Valuation Unit in light of the cessation of 
activities by a private goods inspection 
company  5 days  Ghana  
24-28/08/2015 Tanzania Support for Tanzania focusing on 
customs valuation, PCA and stakeholder engagement (ongoing NORAD project) 5 days   Dar Es Salaam 
7-11/09/2015 Iran,  
Pakistan And 
Afghanistan  Sub-Regional Workshop on Customs 
Valuation 
 4 days Iran 
5-9/10/2015 DRC Visit to the Centralized Customs 
Valuation Unit and Seminar for Customs Valuation Experts and Trainers in the DRC 5 days Kinshasa 
 
 
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