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

¥100M RMB

Funder	China Ministry of Commerce
Recipient Organization	Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance (Georgia)
Country	Georgia
Start Date	Feb 13, 2019
End Date	Sep 21, 2031
Duration	4,603 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`67088`

Grant Description

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.

📚 Sources & References

Ambassador Ji Yanchi met with Georgian Minister of Finance Machavariani and signed the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement between the Government of the People ’s Republic of China and the Government of Georgia (驻格鲁吉亚大使季雁池会见格鲁吉亚财政部长马恰瓦里亚尼并签署《中华人民共和国政府和格鲁吉亚政府经济技术合作协定)
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