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Improving the Border Agency Cooperation

Among the OIC Member States for Facilitating Trade

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Table below presents a set of common tasks – derived from the literature - performed at the

border and the authority that is typically mandated with the role to perform the task in

question. Furthermore, Annex A presents a more comprehensive and detailed list of border

control tasks.

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Table 2. Typical tasks and responsibilities of border control agencies

Task

Typically responsible authority

Collection of taxes, duties and excise

Customs, taxation, treasury, energy (mineral

tax)

Control of war material and dual-use goods

Customs and defence agency

Compilation of trade statistics

National statistics bureau and customs

Passport controls

Border guard, customs and police

Immigration

Immigration, foreign affair authorities,

customs and police

Product safety

Customs, trading standards and health

authorities

Enforcement of intellectual property rights

Customs and trading standards

Fight against drug trafficking

Police and customs

Transport safety

Transport safety authority, customs

Transport security

Transport security authority, customs, police

and intelligence service

Control of CITES-products (endangered

species)

Environmental authorities and customs

Controls of pests, plant diseases and

extraneous species (i.e., phytosanitary

controls)

Agriculture authorities and environmental

authorities

Animal quarantine

Agriculture authorities and environmental

authorities

Source: Table adapted from Poutiainen, M., WCO News 2015, and Aniszewski 2009

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Benefits of international Border Agency Cooperation

Prospective benefits of Border Agency Cooperation explain its increasing popularity at various

policy-making arenas. Governments may expect Border Agency Cooperation to enhance tax

collection, achieve higher trader compliance, and improve resource efficiency through

elimination of duplicated and overlapping activities.

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Wider exchange of trade information and

intelligence between border agencies and across borders would improve accuracy of risk

assessment of cargo movements and result in better targeted interventions. There might be

benefits of international scale if border control agencies in neighbouring countries invested

jointly in common screening equipment, information and communication technologies (ICT) /

systems and facilities. Coordinated maintenance and staff training bring further cost savings.

Also, if border control agencies coordinated their inspections, streamlined their operations

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As a list produced by CBRA during the study.

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Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide

. http://tfig.unece.org/details.html

(accessed 19 April 2016).