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 were to explore a valuation verification simulation and
guide the participants through activities designed 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
|
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 trainers 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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