Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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minimum and the maximum value of time expressed in hours and costs expressed in USD. The
minimum value for time to export for border and documentary compliance is 9 and 2
respectively, while the maximum value is 202 and 504 respectively. For the country with the
highest ranking, the time required for border and documentary compliance is below 10 hours,
while the worst ranked country requires more than 8 days for border compliance andmore than
20 days for border compliance including customs and OGAs inspections. According to these
statistics around half the countries rank below mode value, so there is much room for
improvements, and the implementation of efficient CRM can help improve the results.
Table 41: Export time and costs in OIC MS related to border and documentary
compliance
Year
Time to export:
Border
compliance
(hours)
Cost to export:
Border
compliance
(USD)
Time to export:
Documentary
compliance (hours)
Cost to export:
Documentary
compliance (USD)
2016 N Valid 55 55 55 55
Mean 74.51 483.33 82.38 214.31
Mode 48 602 48 100a
Std. Deviation 36.644 281.775 81.105 254.671
Range 194 1473 502 1790
Minimum 8 30 2 10
Maximum 202 1503 504 1800
2017 N Valid 55 55 55 55
Mean 73.44 486.91 81.09 210.93
Mode 48a 602 48 100a
Std. Deviation 36.759 289.635 80.66 253.648
Range 193 1586 502 1790
Minimum 9 47 2 10
Maximum 202 1633 504 1800
Source: Author’s compilation
The same situation is when it comes to the costs expressed in USD for border and documentary
compliance related to export. These data are related to export procedures, and some of the
countries present extremely high costs, for example, Gabon -for border compliance with 1633
USD and Iraq for documentary compliance with 1800 USD, and have a large impact on their
national economies presents the basic statistics on time and costs related to border and
documentary compliance on imports. The comparison shows that the trade costs related to
import are higher than those for export. Again, looking at the minimum and maximum values,
there is a large discrepancy between the best andworst ranked countries. Obviously, an effective
CRM can improve documentary compliance and trade facilitation process throughmore efficient
border compliance and Single Window concept.