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GACC provides a ZAR 113,000 donation to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to attend customs training

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$8,163
Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•South AfricaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•South AfricaSector•Government And Civil SocietyFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2019

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of this project was to provide funding to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to attend customs training. More detailed location information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/547865682

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

  • Chinese General Administration of Customs

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • South African Revenue Service

Loan desecription

GACC provides a ZAR 113,000 donation to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to attend customs training

Narrative

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Project narrative

According to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) annual report 2018/19, the General Administration of China Customs (GACC) provided 113,000 ZAR for "travel, accommodation and subsistence to attend advanced training on Modern Customs Management" for SARS in 2019. In the past, the GACC and SARS have cooperated through a 2006 MoU that aimed to enhance customs cooperations between China and South Africa. The two sides agreed on a pilot project to manage the trade between China and South Africa to entail the advancement of electronic submission of customs data and the joint detection of high risk. This project, while unlikely to be directly connected to the donation above, highlights a history of cooperation between the two organizations.

Staff comments

The 2006 project definitely is not one that encompasses this current project, but rather is just stated for context. This is because the current project is 1. training-based and not focused on customs legality and 2. Not focused on the electronic submission of customs data.