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Authorized Economic Operator Programs

In the Islamic Countries:

Enhancing Customs-Traders Partnership

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Table 3.14. Comparison of the Benefits of AEO programs: Best practices and OIC countries

Green lane

Incomplete declarations

Simplified declarations

Off working hours

transactions

Reduced guarantees

Local clearance

Priority treatment

Withholding tax

exemption

Pre-clearance

Deferred payment of

Customs duty

CRM

Best Practice Countries

Canada

EU

Japan

OIC Countries

Azerbaijan

Egypt

Indonesia

Jordan

Malaysia

Morocco

Oman

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Source: Authors’ compilation using WCO (2018) data.

The authorization process time is around 1-3 months in the AEO Programs of best practice

countries (Table 3.15). In the OIC region there are 3 countries requiring more time to process

the application and authorizing the company as an AEO: Morocco, Tunisia and Uganda. It takes

4 months and 8 months for Tunisia and Morocco to process the application until authorization.

However, the outlier is Uganda which takes for at least 30 months to process the application.