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9 May 2017 
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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 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 VT1090E1a .  
 
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  ANNEX I  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY ME MBERS  
1  CHINA 
Details of the technical assistance/capacity building activities which China has carried out since the 
last session are listed below.  
(a) Acceptance of trainees  
 
Period of training 
course  Course  Country of trainees  Number 
of 
trainees  
19 October 2016  1. Customs valuation control in 
China  
2. Workflow and train of thought for 
Customs valuation  Nigeria, Ethiopia , Seychelles, 
The Gambia, Liberia, 
Equatorial  Guinea, Lesotho  35 
 
2  JAPAN  
Japan has dispatched experts and accepted trainees to improve knowledge of Custo ms 
Valuation/Post -Clearance Audit (PCA) and to support implementation of the WTO Valuation 
Agreement.  
 
Details 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  
1 to 3 November 2016  Customs Valuation  Indonesia  2 
12 to 16 December 2016  Customs Valuation  Lao People 's Democratic 
Republic  2 
13 to 17 March 2017  Customs Valuation  Myanmar  3 
27 to 31 March 2017  PCA Viet Nam 2 
3 to 7 April 2017  PCA Myanmar  2 
19 to 28 April 2017  Customs Valuation  Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, 
Tanzania, Uganda  2 
 
(b) Acceptance of trainees  
 
Period of training course  Course  Country of trainees  Number of 
trainees  
3 to 7 October 2016  PCA Lao People 's Democratic Republic  10 
17 to 26 October 2016  Customs Valuation  Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, 
Tanzania, Uganda  16 
21 to 25 November 2016  PCA Cambodia  12 
16 to 20 January 2017  Customs Valuation and 
PCA Indonesia  15 
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  ANNEX II  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY THE SECRETARIAT  
Period  Recipient 
Country  Subject s Duration  Location  
21-25 November 2016  Thailand  National Workshop on Customs 
Valuation and Transfer  Pricing  5 days  Bangkok, 
Thailand  
13-17 February 2017  Tanzania  Assistance with Customs 
Valuation under the NORAD 
Programme  5 days  Dar es Salaam, 
Tanzania  
20-24 February 2017 Countries of 
the WCO 's 
East and 
Southern 
Africa region  Customs Valuation  and Transfer 
Pricing Regional Workshop  5 days  Harare, 
Zimbabwe  
27 February to  
3 March 2017  Madagascar  National Workshop on the 
Development of Advance Ruling 
Systems for Tariff Classification 
and Customs Valuation  5 days  Antananarivo , 
Madagascar  
20-24 March 2017  Moldova, Rep. 
of National Workshop on Customs 
Valuation  5 days  Chisinau, 
Moldova, Rep. of  
20-24 March 2017  Countries of 
the WCO 's 
West and 
Central Africa 
region  Workshop on Customs Valuation 
and Transfer Pricing  5 days  Ouagadougou, 
Burkina Faso  
 
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