Committee on Customs Valuation - Preshipment Inspection - Note by the Secretariat - Revision

World Trade Organization G/VAL/W/63/Rev.7 12 June 2006 (06-2801) Committee on Customs Valuation PRESHIPMENT INSPECTION Note by the Secretariat Revision At its meeting of 12 and 25 November and 17 December 1999, the Committee on Customs Valuation agreed that the Secretariat would prepare, in advance of regular meetings of the Committee, a document indicating the situation with regard to countries using preshipment inspection (PSI) regimes. This document is the seventh of this series. It presents the information that is compiled exceptionally for the WTO by the International Federation of Inspection Agencies (IFIA) PreShipment Inspection Committee in response to a request by the WTO. The table below presents the information as at 1 June 2006. _______________ COUNTRY TYPE MANDATED MEMBERS OF IFIA PSI COMMITTEE IFIA MEMBER CHOICE Angola Customs BIVAC - Bangladesh Customs BIVAC, Cotecna, Intertek , SGS Geographical Benin Cust