Improving the Border Agency Cooperation
Among the OIC Member States for Facilitating Trade
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examples of concrete border agency cooperation actions, explained below by using real
examples, whenever available in the literature or by expert suggestions. In the centre of the
diagram lies a circle with the more generic “smart cross-border improvement actions”,
applicable to virtually any work in global trade facilitation.
Figure 3. CBRA model on 15 key Border Agency Cooperation activities
Source: Hintsa, J, (2015)
To start with, the centre circle of the CBRA-BAC15 diagram highlights the basic, classical
principles of trade facilitation – naturally in the context of multiple agencies dealing with
cross-border regulations, procedures, IT-systems and data requirements: