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25 October  2017 
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Committee on Customs Valuati on   
 
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 Ar ticle 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 ac tivities carried out by the Secretariat 
of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and its Members, as contained in the annexes of 
WCO document  VT1112E1a.  
 
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  ANNEX I  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY ME MBERS  
1  UNIT ED STATES  
Details of the technical assistance/capacity building activities which the United States has carried 
out since the last session are listed below.  
(a) Dispatch of experts  
 
Recipient Country  Course  Period of Dispatch  Number of 
Experts  
19 October 2 016 Workshop on  Handicraft Export  
Customs Procedures  for Moroccan  
Handicrafts to the  United States – 
Basics  of Customs Valuation  16 and 17 May 2017  3 
 
2  JAPAN  
Japan has dispatched experts and accepted trainees to improve 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 activities which Japan has carried out since 
the last session and is planning to implement by 30 April 2017  are listed below.  
 
(a) Dispatch of experts  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient country  Number of 
experts  
5 – 9 June 2017  PCA Mongolia  1 
25 – 30 September 2017  Customs Valuation  Union of Myanmar (Republic of 
the) 2 
 
(b) Acceptance of trainees  
 
Period of tr aining course  Course  Country of trainees  Number of 
trainees  
24 – 31 May 2017  PCA Vietnam  10 
5 – 9 June 2017  Customs Valuation  
(WCO Asia/Pacific Regional 
Workshop on Customs 
Valuation)  24 Members in the Asia/Pacific 
region  33 
19 – 21 June 2017  PCA Union of Myanmar (Republic of 
the) 18 
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  ANNEX II  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY THE SECRETARIAT  
Period  Recipient 
Country  Subject s Duration  Location  
20 to 28 April 2017  East Africa 
Community  Joint WCO/JICA1 Workshop for 
Master T rainers on Customs 
Valuation  8 days  Zanzibar, 
Tanzania  
5 to 9 June 2017  Countries of 
the 
Asia/Pacific 
region  Training Workshop on Customs 
Valuation and Revenue Package  5 days  Kobe, Japan  
12 to 14 June 2017  Countries of 
the Southern 
African 
Customs 
Union (SACU) 
region  Advance Rulings  3 days  Swaziland  
12 to 16 June 2017  Ethiopian 
Revenue and 
Customs 
Authority  National Workshop on Post -
Clearance Audit  5 days  Addis Ababa, 
Ethiopia  
12 to 16 June 2017  Guatemala  Joint WTO/WCO National 
Workshop on Customs V aluation  5 days  Guatemala  
28 August to 
1 September 2017  Mongolia  Diagnostic Mission on the 
Customs Valuation Control 
System, and Customs Valuation 
Training Workshop  5 days  Ulaanbaatar, 
Mongolia  
 
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1 JICA: Japan International Cooperation Agenc y