Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information
In the Islamic Countries
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Figure 14: TFI scores by component, OIC Arab Group, 2017.
Source: OECD TFIs.
Figure 15 shows the Asian Group. Countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, and some of the
Central Asian countries have strong performance on a number of metrics, albeit still well within
the global best practice frontier represented by Singapore. The use of advance rulings stands
out as an area where the Asian Group performs well, particularly Malaysia, Kyrgyz Republic,
Kazakhstan, and Albania. Country performance appears to vary more across pillars than is the
norm in the other regional groups, as in the case of Bangladesh where performance is strong in
some areas, but very weak in terms of advance rulings; this issue is revisited in the case study
section, as Bangladesh is a country that has been undergoing tremendous change in its trade
facilitation regime, and these data are from 2017.
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Algeria
Bahrain
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Morocco
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen, Rep.
Appeal Procedures Advance Rulings
Involvement of the Trade Community Information Availability