Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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4.3.2.3 World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border
The ranking of economies based on the ease of trading across borders determined by sorting
their distance to frontier scores. The “frontier” defined by the best performance observed on
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
completed in June 2017 107.
Table 55: Islamic Republic of Pakistan World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border
performances
Year
Score-
Trading
across
borders)
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 60.12 75 120 356 475.7
2018 60.12 75 120 356 475.7
2017 56.69 75 120 376.4 496.3
2016 55.39 78.9 131.3 376.4 496.3
Source: World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Borders
Despite efforts of the Federal Board of Revenue, the current rank of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, on Trade Facilitation is behind 23 OICMS, as expressed by Doing Business 2018 – 2019
Trading Across Borders. Table 56 summarizes the results of the analysis:
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