Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information
In the Islamic Countries
42
consistent with the emergence within the region of logistics hubs, like the UAE, which scores
either partially or fully implemented on all indicators.
Figure 22: UNGS data for the OIC Arab Group, 2017.
Source: UNGS.
Finally, Figure 23 presents data for the Asian Group. Nearly all measures are partially or fully
implemented (scores of 2 or 3), which explains the relatively high average score for the group,
referenced above. Malaysia, which is addressed in more detail in Section 4, stands out as having
the maximum possible score on all five indicators. As a result, it is very much at or close to the
global best practice frontier in this area. A number of other countries, fromdifferent sub-regions,
have two or three instances of the maximum possible score, which is again indicative of strong
overall performance by the group. Compared with the other two groups, there are few missing
bars, which suggests that countries in the Asian Group have generally at least made a start, and
typically considerable progress, in terms of implementing the key agenda items in relation to
public information availability identified in the UNGS.
0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 3
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Qatar
Yemen, Rep.
Advance Ruling Advance Publication
Stakeholder Consultations Publication of Regulations
National Trade Facilitation Committee