Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information

In the Islamic Countries

Current State of Play

Figure 12 shows results for the TFIs, for the latest year available 2017. The first fact that is

apparent is that Singapore scores much higher than any of the OIC regional averages on all four

dimensions taken from the TFIs. Looking within the OIC, it is clear that the African Group on

averages performs less strongly than the other groups, although the difference is much more

pronounced in relation to appeal procedures, for example, than in relation to involvement of the

trade community. In general, the Asian Group is the strongest performing OIC regional group,

followed by the Arab Group, and then the African Group.

Figure 12: Average TFI scores by component, OIC regional groups, 2017.

Source: OECD TFIs.

It is important to go beyond group averages, however, to look at individual country scores. With

this in mind, Figure 13 considers the African Group, looking separately on performance on each

of the four pillars. There is clearly a mix of scores that varies substantially across countries,

although all are well below the maximum possible score of 2. Senegal, Nigeria, and Cameroon

stand out as having strong scores relative to the group average on most pillars. In general,

involvement of the trade community is the area where countries have their highest scores.

Smaller, lower income countries tend to have the greatest performance differences with respect

to the global best practice frontier, as is to be expected. More details on the considerations that

go into making Senegal, for instance, a relatively strong performer can be found in the relevant

case study in Section 4.

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Information

Availability

Involvement of the

Trade Community

Advance Rulings

Appeal Procedures

African

Arab

Asian

Singapore