Question 6: Why do customs officers have to determine the value of imported goods?

What is the
most relevant and common method to determine customs value of imported goods?
- To base the calculation of taxes and statistics on export and import goods.
- To determine the selling price of the goods at the export border, excluding I (insurance), F
(international freight).
- Determining the actual prices to be paid at the first entry border-gate, in accordance with law
and treaties to which Vietnam is a contracting party.

The most relevant and common method to determine customs value of imported goods is
transaction value. The basis for customs valuation of goods imported for customs purposes to the
greatest extent shall be the transaction value. Thus, this measure is very important and fundamental
to the GATT 1994.

8) The Newland Brotherhood of Workers, the National Association of Electronics Producers

of Richland, and ‘Fair Deal’, a non-governmental organisation that focuses on the problems
of developing countries, all send amicus curiae briefs to the chair of the panel. The brief of
the National Association of Electronics Producers of Richland was published in the Financial
Times and the Wall Street Journal a week earlier and received a lot of attention. The chair of
the panel also receives a brief from Southland, a developing-country Member which is a
major exporter of consumer electronics, including LED displays. What should the panel do
with these unsolicited briefs? The Newland Brotherhood of Workers and the National
Association of Electronics Producers of Richland have expressed a wish to receive all the
briefs submitted by the parties to the panel and to attend the panel meetings. Is this
possible? Will you, as a private lawyer, be allowed to attend the panel meetings and speak
for Newland?
- The panel can ignore amicus curiae briefs if it does not fit.
- if the Newland and Richland parties agree, then the Newland Brotherhood of
Workers and the National Association of Electronics Producers of Richland will
receive all the abstracts submitted by the parties to the panel and attendance. panel
meetings.
- As a private lawyer, Not participate in the meeting and be informed or consulted.
Unless it was originally a contract with a related country (Richland).

11) One week before the second substantive meeting with the panel, Newland submits to
the panel a 100-page document on the Uruguay Round negotiations, which it claims
supports its position. The panel would like to get the advice of a number of eminent
international trade law scholars and of former Uruguay Round negotiators on this issue.
What can the panel do?
According to article 13, DSU, Each panel shall have the right to seek information and
technical advice from any individual or body which it deems appropriate. However, before a
panel seeks such information or advice from any individual or body within the jurisdiction of a
Member it shall inform the authorities of that Member.