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 VT1039E1a.
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ANNEX
I
Technical Assistance/Capacity
Building Activities Undertaken by Members
1 canada
From 29 February
2016 to 4 March 2016, 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
were to present a valuation course on the application of the Customs Valuation
Agreement, improve risk management with consideration to Canada’s best
practices, explain the thinking process required to perform valuation post-clearance
audits and address the role of transparency.
2 United States
(a) Dispatch
of experts
|
Date of Dispatch
|
Course
|
Recipient Country
|
Number of Experts
|
|
20-23 October 2015
|
Valuation
of IT products, determining the value of high-risk imports, post-clearance
audits
|
Armenia
|
2
|
|
7-14 February
2016
|
Workshop
on Trade Facilitation, Advance Rulings, and Customs Appeals
|
Sri
Lanka
|
2
|
3 Japan
Japan
has dispatched experts and accepted trainees 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 March
2016, are listed below.
(a) Dispatch
of experts
|
Period of dispatch
|
Course
|
Recipient country
|
Number of experts
|
|
12-16 October 2015
|
PCA
|
Myanmar
|
2
|
|
16-20 November 2015
|
Valuation and
PCA
|
Lao
People's Democratic Republic
|
2
|
|
16-20 November 2015
|
PCA
|
Samoa
|
1
|
|
18-22 January 2016
|
PCA
|
Cambodia
|
1
|
|
16-19 Feb. 2016
|
Valuation
|
Thailand
|
2
|
|
21 - 25 March 2016
|
PCA
|
Vietnam
|
2
|
(b) Acceptance
of trainees
|
Period of training course
|
Course
|
Country of trainees
|
Number of trainees
|
|
11-16 January 2016
|
Valuation and
PCA
|
Myanmar
|
15
|
|
17-23 January 2016
|
Valuation and
PCA
|
Lao
People's Democratic Republic
|
14
|
|
31 January - 6 February
2016
|
PCA
|
Malaysia
|
15
|
ANNEX
II
Technical Assistance/Capacity Building Activities
Undertaken by the Secretariat
|
Period
|
Recipient Country
|
Subjects
|
Duration
|
Location
|
|
9-13 November 2015
|
Georgia
|
Enhance Georgia's
valuation control programme, based on risk management techniques and
post-clearance audits.
|
5 days
|
Tbilisi
|
|
16-20 November 2015
|
Togo
|
Diagnostic of the
valuation control system used by the Customs and Indirect Taxes Department,
Togo Revenue Authority (OTR).
|
5 days
|
Lomé
|
|
23-27 November 2015
|
Ghana
|
Set up a group of
experts - facilitators capable of leading diagnostic missions related to
Tariff and Trade Affairs activities on behalf of the WCO, to help Members use
the new diagnostic tool developed as part of the Revenue Package programme.
|
5 days
|
Accra
|
|
24-28 January 2016
|
Maldives
|
Support efforts by
SASEC countries embodied by proper valuation management, ideally through PCA.
|
5 days
|
Malé
|
|
15-19 February 2016
|
Swaziland
|
Provide support to the
Swaziland Revenue Authority to further build its capacity to conduct
effective valuation, tariff classification and origin controls.
|
5 days
|
Mbabane
|
|
7–11 March 2016
|
El Salvador
|
Diagnostic mission
based on the WCO Revenue Package.
|
5 days
|
San Salvador
|
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