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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 VT1066E1 b. 
 
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  ANNEX I  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY MEMBERS  
1  CANA DA 
From 9 to 20 May 2016 and from 1 to 5 August 2016, Canada provided technical assistance to 
Colombia’s National Tax and Customs Agency (Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales -
DIAN). The main objective was to develop a Valuation Post -Clearance Audit Procedures Manual.  
 
2  CHINA  
China has dispatched experts to improve knowledge in the areas of Customs Valuation, share 
China’s experience and support implementation of the WTO Valuation Agreement.  
Details of the technical assistance/capacity building activit ies which China has carried out since the 
last session are listed below.  
(a) Dispatch of experts  
Date of 
Dispatch  Course  Recipient Country  Number 
of 
Experts  
24-26 May 2016  1. Customs valuation control in China  
2. Workflow and train of thought for 
Customs valua tion  
3. Price actually paid or payable – 
examination of transaction value  
4. Verification of royalties and licence 
fees  
5. Transfer pricing and Customs  
Valuation  Uganda  1 
 
(b) Acceptance of trainees  
 
Period of 
training 
course  Course  Country of trainees  Number 
of 
trainees  
16 August 2016  1. Customs valuation control in China  
2. Workflow and train of thought for 
Customs valuation  East African 
Community, Kenya, 
Rwanda, Tanzania, 
Malawi, Botswana, 
South Africa, Uganda, 
Zimbabwe  39 
 
3  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.  
 
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 2016 are listed below.  
 
(a) Dispatch of experts  
 
Period of dispatch  Course  Recipient country  Number of 
experts  
30 May -3 June 2016  Valuation  Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, 
Rwanda, Uganda  2 
13 to 17 June  2016 PCA Latin America  1 G/VAL/8/Add.3 3 
 
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  (b) Acceptance of trainees  
 
Period of training 
course  Course  Country of trainees  Number of 
trainees  
12-16 September 2016  Valuation  Asian and Oceanian 
countries  23 
 
 
4  UNITED STATES  
(a) Dispatch of experts  
 
Period of dispatch  Cour se Recipient country  Number of 
experts  
15-17 June 2016  Second Workshop on 
Customs Valuation, 
Classification and Post -
Clearance Audit  
 Kosovo  3 
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  ANNEX I I 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE /CAPACITY BUILDING A CTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN  BY THE SECRETARIAT  
Period  Recipient 
Country Subject s Duration  Location  
5-7 April 2016  Belarus  National Training Workshop on 
Customs Valuation and the 
Revenue Package  3 days  Minsk  
23-27 May 2016  Nigeria and 
Ghana  Train-the-Trainer Workshop on 
Customs Valuation for Nigeria 
and Ghana  5 days  Abuja, 
Nigeria  
6-14 June 2016  Cameroon  Diagnostic mission on the 
valuation control system and 
assessment of related expertise  7 days  Yaoundé 
and Douala  
18-22 July 2016  Honduras  Joint WTO -WCO Workshop on 
Customs Valuation for 35 
participants of private and  
public sectors  5 days  Tegucigalpa  
25-26 August 
2016 Kazakhstan  Valuation Workshop (focusing 
on royalties and licence fees 
and on transfer pricing)  2 days  Astana  
19-23 September 
2016 Countries of the 
North of Africa, 
Near and Middle 
East and Europe 
regions Joint WCO -OECD Workshop on 
Transfer Pricing and Customs 
Valuation  5 days  Ankara, 
Turkey  
26-30 September 
2016 Haiti and 
Dominican 
Republic  Regional Valuation Workshop 
for Haitian and Dominican 
Customs  5 days  Port-au-
Prince, Haiti  
 
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