Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common … costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing times at the port of entry are random and firms choose lead times to …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …