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

World Trade Organization G/VAL/W/63/Rev.11 9 January 2009 (09-0052) 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 twelfth 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. In this submission, dated 9 January 2009, the first category contains programmes which IFIA would term pure PSI. The second category is for contracts which have an element of PSI, and are therefore covered by the PSI Agreement.  The third category, which has been o