Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
168
Missing 2 2 2 2 2
Mean 57.066 156.425 208.636 684.293 882.522
Mode 15.990 90.000 161.000 147.000 478.000
Std. Deviation 18.354 100.356 124.386 470.583 468.805
Skewness -0.373 1.631 0.688 2.421 0.526
Std. Error of
Skewness
0.322 0.322 0.322 0.322 0.322
80.980 575.000 568.000 2878.000 2256.000
Minimum 15.990 14.000 8.000 40.000 0.000
Maximum 96.970 589.000 576.000 2918.000 2256.000
Source: Author’s compilation
Albania ranks highest (minimum value), while Yemen ranks lowest of the 189. There is not a big
difference between the data for 2016 and those for 2017, but there are still opportunities for
improvement for many OIC MS.
The comparative analysis of the trade costs and time to import and export on OIC MS average
level with developed countries such as EU MS shows that the average of OIC MS has higher costs
and time based on border and documentary compliance. The similar results are for the CEFTA
MS that sign the pre-accession Agreement with EU, due to the implementation of the EU acquis
related to the common EU customs domain.
Figure 60: Trade Costs and Time Comparative Analysis between OIC MS, EU, CEFTA and
ASEAN
Source: Author’s compilation
Data on time and costs for border and documentary compliance are presented in Figure 60. The
basic statistics are given i There is not much difference between the data for 2016
and 2017, but there is a large difference between the best and the worst OIC MS regarding