Streamlining air import operations by trade facilitation measures

Key operations performance factors on trade and transport facilitation

Introduction Globalisation has dramatically changed logistics and supply chain management, demanding tightened operations and stronger management. Despite the current financial crisis, global trade is likely to carry on growing, as greater participation in international trade has long been identified as an essential element of economic growth, generating mutual benefits for the countries and bu...

The Costs and Challenges of Trade Facilitation Measures

TRADE FACILITATION INDICATORS: THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF TRADE FACILITATION ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES’ TRADE - addendum

This document is the addendum to the paper TAD/TC/WP(2012)24 and provides findings on transit trade indicators. JT03331822 Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, cit...

Trade Facilitation in Developing Countries

Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade and welfare benefits may be reaped from a broader view of trade facilitation (TF) that incorporates tra...

Trade facilitation and country size

Abstract It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the number of documents required to export and import, a measure of trade facilitation. Three import...