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committee is called the Enlarged National Focal Point.83 Trade Facilitation is named as a function of
Nigeria’s Customs.84
Infrastructure, Finance, Planning and Programming
Although we do not have specific information about financial donors in Nigeria, The West African
region in an important investment location for many organizations: “a number of multilateral and
bilateral donors” are “preparing programs in support of regional integration, transport and trade
facilitation on the corridor.” A few examples are the European Union, the Millennium Challenge
Corporation, African Development Bank, West Africa Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank
and the United States Agency for International Development (World Bank, 2009). The Nigeria Country
Partnership Strategy (CPS) has put the improvement of investment climate and policies as one of the
four pillars to focus on. (World Bank, 2009).
Corridor Performance Monitoring/Dissemination
In the case of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor, monitoring and dissemination is handled by the Abidjan-
Lagos Corridor Organization (World Bank, 2009). We could not find specific information about
monitoring of other corridors.
Corridor Promotion and Stakeholder Consultation
The Nigerian National Trade Facilitation Committee is to handle stakeholder consultation (WTO,
2016). We did not find specific information on corridor promotion.
Capacity Building, Technical Assistance/Studies
There are a few parties involved in capacity building and providing technical assistance: chief among
which are USAID, the EU, the Chinese government and WTO (WTO, 2016).
Legal Framework
Nigeria is a member of ECOWAS.
Nigeria adopted the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) (2003).
Under ECOWAS, Nigeria is subject to the Regional Road Transport and Transit Facilitation Program
(World Bank, 2009).
Nigerian Customs is responsible for implementing of the relevant bilateral and multilateral
agreements.85.
In 2012, Ghana and Nigeria drafted “a bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement stating that both
countries ―agree to fully implement the ECOWAS protocol on the Free Movement of Goods and
Services, otherwise referred to as chapter VII of the revised ECOWAS Treaty of 1993,‖ to facilitate the
free flow of trade between the countries, while complying with the rules of origin as defined in the
ECOWAS protocols. To strengthen trade between Ghana and Nigeria, existing commitments should be
fully implemented and laws will have to be applied.” (Hoppe & Aidoo, 2012).
EGYPT
General Information
As we have seen in the chapter on the Jordan corridors, customs efficiency between MENA states are
rather low (Larbi, 2016). Egypt is no exception. Trade flows between MENA states are much less
significant than trade flows between respective MENA states and the EU. In the past, trade facilitation
and logistic reforms in Egypt have focused on the European and Asian trade routes. Nowadays the
attention has also shifted to regional trade, mainly with GCC, Maghreb and Mashreq regions. Having
said that, inter-regional trade is still on a low level of coordination, slow, and complicated due to “little
effort to monitor customs performance at the border, and insufficiently improved facilities at border
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