Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information
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Figure 35: Performance on information availability in the TFIs, Senegal, 2017.
Source: OECD TFIs.
The simulator module of the OECD TFI website makes it possible to obtain the detailed score
information underlying the pillars presented above, and discussed in Sections 2 and 3 provides
results. There are numerous areas in which Senegal scores the maximum possible score of 2,
which is indicative of notable progress in terms of the availability of customs and trade-related
information. However, work remains to be done in other areas, such as facilitating the usefulness
of enquiry points, publication of rulings, access to reviewprocedures, and judicial independence.
Many of these issues are likely symptoms of more general issues arising from the perspectives
of governance and transparency in the country. Moving forward on trade specifically is
challenging if there is not more generalized progress in promoting government transparency,
which then helps provide additional impetus to reforms in the trade area. Nonetheless, given its
status as an LDC, Senegal performs relatively well on these metrics, and the effort that Customs
and trade administrations have put into developing high quality information systems is clearly
displayed in the number of areas where the country scores the maximum possible 2 points.
The second major dataset used in this report, the UNGS, does not include Senegal in its 2017
sample, so it is not possible to present an interpretation of those data in addition to what is in
the TFIs.
Scope of Information Dissemination to the Public
Focusing strictly on legal measures, as in the previous sub-section, suggests that Senegal is
relatively distant from global best practice. However, the country has taken important de facto
steps to improve the public availability of customs and trade information in recent years.
As part of its plans to implement the TFA Senegal has developed and operationalized a Trade
Information Portal (TIP) which enables it to make available to actual and potential traders all
regulatory trade information related to their transactions in Senegal. As part of the project,
policymakers engaged in a comprehensive assessment that drew from websites that already
publish such information, but also identified trade-related regulation not previously available
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