Establishing Well Functioning National Trade Facilitation Bodies (NTFBs)
In the OIC Member States
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The participation of the private sector is through the Customs cargo service, Asian Development
Bank to the Kyrgyz Republic and the German entity in the technical collaboration.
The main objectives are development and realization of the state policy in the external trade;
increase transparency, quality and customer orientation of the state services, the implementation of
the entrepreneur good faith principle and development of partnership and confidence between
business actors and the state.
Analysis
The Kyrgyz Republic is actively collaborating with international organizations and their projects on
trade and transport facilitation:
 ESCAP and UNECE- elaboration of recommendations on trade and transport facilitation.
 World Bank technical regulation reform support
 Asian Development Bank, Customs automation and modernization support
 German Center on collaboration, USAID on administrative barrier elimination and single
window implementation in the external trade sphere.
The greatest obstacles of the NTFB in Kyrgyz Republic are the high level of transit costs, leading to
increase in costs of import and export and the weak collaboration of state bodies responsible for the
border control, apartness of the sanitary services and decision taking centers from the border, low
material and technical equipment of the checkpoints, non-transparency and complexity of the
administrative procedures.
The recommendations for this country are the optimization and reduction of the existing
administrative procedures in export and import; the identification of the checkpoints, situated near
the countries, producing the goods of high risks and the implementation of the Single Window
mechanisms, creation of the single automated database on the relevant actors, implementation of the
single administrative document on the checkpoints, as well as implementation of e-Systems of
Customs declaration and clearance.
3.5.6. Nigeria
Description
The official name of the NTFB is National Committee on Trade Facilitation/ Sub-committee of the
enlarged national focal point on trade matters, was established in May 14th 2009.
The public sector participates through Nigerian Customs Service; Federal Ministry of Trade and
Investment; Federal Ministry of Finance; Federal Ministry of Transport; Nigeria Shippers Council;
Nigeria Quarantine Service; Nigeria Export Promotion Council; Nigeria Investment Promotion
Commission; Nigeria Export Import Bank; Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority; Nigeria
Immigration Service; Standard Organization of Nigeria; National Agency for Food Drugs
Administration and Control; National Planning Commission; Central Bank of Nigeria; Office of the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation; Federal Ministry of Works; Federal Road Safety
Corps; Nigerian Ports Authority; and Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources. 95% participation is
reported.