Chinese Government provides a RMB 100 million grant—via 2019 ETCA—for the purchase of customs inspection systems in Georgia

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, on February 13, 2019, the Chinese Government and the Government of Georgia signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 100 million in grant funding. The Revenue Service of the Georgian Ministry of Finance will finance inspection systems for customs checkpoints using these grant funds. The primary purpose of the project was to implement an efficient security system within Georgian border customs and to avoid potential threats.

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No source explicitly names the Chinese Ministry of Commerce as the source of financing, but since this is an ETCA AidData has assumed it was and coded accordingly.

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