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Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information

In the Islamic Countries

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Figure 17: Percentage change in OECD TFIs, African Group, 2012-2017.

Source: OECD TFIs.

The next figure performs the same analysis for the Arab Group. In this case, there are again

numerous countries where data are not available for 2012, which means that a temporal

comparison is not possible; they have been dropped from the sample. In addition, and as for the

African Group figure, there are some countries where only some pillars have figures for both

years, so those countries are listed but only some pillars are present. Having said this, the picture

that emerges is again one of patchy improvement, with the exception of Algeria, where positive

changes are more broad-based. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE stand out has having seen

significant improvements in terms of involvement of the trade community, and Oman has seen

significant positive movement on appeal procedures. However, there is also evidence of

backsliding, with deteriorations in scores over time in numerous Arab Group countries.

Generally, the backsliding is on one or two indicators, except in the case of Bahrain where it is

present for all four pillars. Nonetheless, the improvements seen are typically larger in relative

terms than the possible backsliding.

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Benin

Burkina Faso

Côte d'Ivoire

Cameroon

Gambia, The

Mali

Mozambique

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Uganda

Percent

Country

Appeal Procedures

Advance Rulings

Involvement of the Trade Community Information Availability