Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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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 112.
Table 58: Jordan World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border performances
Economy Year
Score-Trading
across borders
2016-2019
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)
Jordan
2019 79.03 53 79 131 206
2018 79.03 53 79 131 206
2017 79.03 53 79 131 206
2016 78.87 55 79 131 206
Source: World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border
Despite efforts of the Jordan Customs and related agencies, at present, the rank of the Jordan,
regarding Trade Facilitation is behind the ranks of 104 - ease of doing business global rank 2019
and 74 Rank-Trading across borders of 185 world economies. Jordan is ranked 8 among the 55
OIC MS, as expressed by Doing Business 2019 Trading Across Borders ummarizes the
results of the analysis:
Table 59: Summary of the Analysis
Organization
Jordan Republic
Ranking / Performances
Worldwide Economies
Assessed / Average
World Bank Doing Business Trading across
Border
74 185
World Bank Logistics Performance Index 84 160
UN Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and
Paperless Trade Implementation 76.34% 62.67%
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