Enhancing Public Availability of Customs Information
In the Islamic Countries
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notifications immediately sets the scene for dealing with Morocco as a high performer in the
area of public availability of trade information.
Table 3: Detailed breakdown of TFA implementation by Morocco.
Provision Heading/Description
Category and Indicative date for
implementation (as per Member’s
notification)
Article 1.1 Publication A
Article 1.2
Information available through
internet
A
Article 1.3 Enquiry Points A
Article 1.4 Notification A
Article 2.1
Opportunity to Comment and
Information before Entry into Force
A
Article 2.2 Consultations A
Article 3 Advance Rulings A
Article 4 Procedures for Appeal or Review A
Source: Author based on information from WTO.
This issue can be explored further using the two principal data sources for this report. Figure 37
shows the results for the TFIs, with Singapore as usual included as a best practice benchmark.
Although Singapore scores higher than Morocco on all four indicators, the differences are
typically not large, except perhaps in the case of advance rulings. Of the three field visit case
study countries, Morocco is the closest to the global best practice frontier as evidenced by its
TFI scores on key indicators relating to the availability of Customs and trade-related
information.
Figure 37: Performance on information availability in the TFIs, Morocco and Singapore, 2017.
Source: OECD TFIs.
In Section 3, Figure 18 shows, somewhat surprisingly, that Morocco’s score has decreased on
two of the four TFI pillars between 2012 and 2017. It is unclear what the source of this result is,
0,000
0,500
1,000
1,500
2,000
Information
Availability
Involvement of the
Trade Community
Advance Rulings
Appeal Procedures
Morocco
Singapore