Overview

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

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$15,115,778

Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•GeorgiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•GeorgiaSector•Trade Policies And RegulationsFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Feb 13, 2019

Start (actual): Feb 13, 2019

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

China Ministry of Commerce

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance (Georgia)

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance (Georgia)

Loan description

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

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

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.

Staff comments

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.