FACILITATING INTRA-OIC TRADE:
Improving the Efficiency of the Customs Procedures in the OIC Member States
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Table 11: Customs Clearance and Technical Control Cost in OIC Member States
Country USD Country USD Country USD
Iraq 700 Mozambique 340 Togo 190
Cameroon 670 Uganda 325 Djibouti 170
Guinea Bissau 556 Afghanistan 300 Bangladesh 150
Chad 525 Burkina Faso 300 Comoros 150
Gabon 500 Cote d'Ivoire 300 Morocco 150
Syria 450 Mauritania 300 Kuwait 145
Niger 430 Guinea 250 Gambia 135
Azerbaijan 425 Palestine 250 Indonesia 125
Kazakhstan 425 Tunisia 250 Bahrain 110
Kyrgyz 420 Suriname 245 Egypt 100
Tajikistan 420 İran 220 Guyana 100
Lebanon 400 Pakistan 220 Qatar 100
Yemen 385 Algeria 200 Brunei 80
Sierra Leone 380 Benin 200 Albania 65
Mali 375 Maldives 200 Jordan 65
Nigeria 360 Saudi Arabia 200 Oman 65
Senegal 360 Turkey 200 Malaysia 60
Sudan 350 Uzbekistan 200 UAE 30
Source: Doing Business 2014
Note: Data on Somalia and Turkmenistan is not available
Collecting duties from the exports is also a common practice in some of the OIC
Member States. According to WTO, these countries include Sierra Leone (diamonds),
Uganda (coffee and cotton), Tunisia (crude oil), Mali (cotton), Benin (cocoa beans,
crude oil and precious metals) etc. In some of the Member States all the exports are
subject to fees. Fees collected by some of the Member States are illustrated by Table 12
below.
Table 12: Fees collected from the Exports in Some of the Member States
Country Fees
Mali 0.65 per cent of the f.o.b. value for the Import Inspection Program (PVI).
Mauritania 1 percent as a Statistical fee
Nigeria 0.5 percent levy is imposed on all exports in lieu of pre-shipment inspection.
Pakistan 0.25% of the f.o.b. value is levied on all exports (except from export processing zones)
as export development charge to finance the Export Development Fund (EDF)
Suriname A consent fee of 0.1%. A statistical fee of 0.5% applies to exports of all products
except bauxite, which is subject to a statistical fee of 2%.
Turkey A fee ranging from 0.02% to 0.1% of the f.o.b. value of exports is charged as a service
commission.
Source: WTO Country Trade Policy Reviews