FACILITATING INTRA-OIC TRADE:

Improving the Efficiency of the Customs Procedures in the OIC Member States

and trade impact of trade facilitation measures currently under negotiation in the World

Trade Organization (WTO) on trade flows and trade costs in all WTO member countries

(Moïsé and Sorescu (2013). In this context, based on the Trade Facilitation Negotiating

Text, several measures have been identified. As a first step, the OECD conducted the

study for the OECD Countries in 2011 and then expanded it to other countries in 2013.

Currently, the TFIs cover 133 countries from all over the world. However, the TFIs is

not yet a regularly published index like the LPI or ETI. For each measure, a score is

given to the country from 0 to 2, where 2 represents the best performance.

Figures 3 below, illustrates the performance of the main sub-regions of the Sub-Saharan

Countries according to the TFIs. Within the group, Southern Africa has the best

performance. Southern Africa also performs better than the non-OECD Countries as a

group such as in the area of governance and impartiality, advance rulings, fees and

charges etc.

Figure 3: Trade facilitation performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Source

2013

Singapore, being the best performer in many relevant indices, is also performing

excellent according to the TFIs. As it is shown in Figure 4 in next page, it gets the

highest scores in almost all the areas.