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each Doing Business topic across all economies and years since 2005. Trading across Borders
Rank Indicator does not include the time and cost associated with domestic transport.
The Trading across Borders indicator is one of the 11 different areas included in the Doing
Business project. The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, provides measures of business
regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies:
 The trading across borders indicator measures the time and cost associated with the
logistical process of exporting and importing goods;
 It covers three sets of procedures: Documentary compliance, Border compliance,
Domestic transport;
 The indicator is available annually; the most recent round of data collection was
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Table 53: Republic of Senegal World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border
performances
Year
Score-Trading
across borders
(DB16-19
methodology)
Trading across
borders - Time
to export:
Border
compliance
(hours)
Trading across
Borders - Time
to import:
Border
compliance
(hours)
Trading across
Borders - Cost
to export:
Border
compliance
(USD)
Trading across
Borders - Cost
to import:
Border
compliance
(USD)
2019 60.85 61 53 547 702
2018 60.85 61 53 547 702
2017 60.85 61 53 547 702
2016 60.85 61 53 547 702
Source: World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Borders
Despite efforts of the SC and related agencies, the current rank of the Republic of Senegal, on
Trade Facilitation is behind 27 OIC MS, as expressed by Doing Business 2018 – 2019 Trading
Across Borders summarizes the results of the analysis:
Table 54: Summary of the Analysis
Organization
Republic of
Senegal Ranking /
Performances
Worldwide Economies
Assessed / Average
World Bank Doing Business Trading across
Border
141 185
World Bank Logistics Performance Index 141 160
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