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Do customs trade facilitation programmes help reduce customs-related corruption?
Michael, Bryane; Ferguson, Frank; Karimov, Alisher - 2012
Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …
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Trade Facilitation Costs and Corruption : Evidence from China
Cumming, Douglas J.; Ge, Ying - 2022
This paper focuses on a less-studied corruptive behavior hidden in trade facilitation costs. We use Chinese firm-level data to identify systematic variations in entertainment and travel costs (ETCs) across different trading markets and trading partners. We find that ETCs significantly increase...
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Trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements traits and trends
Neufeld, Nora - 2014 - Manuscript date: January 15, 2014
The paper first surveys the Trade Facilitation landscape at the regional level and analyses the main forces shaping it. It identifies key factors driving regional Facilitation approaches, examining their priorities, features and underlying philosophies. The study also highlights significant...
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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements
Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017
are most commonly found in RTA chapters on e-commerce or in those dedicated to Customs and trade facilitation. Their …
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Evaluation of the economic welfare gains from reducing trade administration costs in Mercosur
Nazif, Mehmet; Jenkins, Glenn P. - 2024
This paper evaluates the potential welfare gains in the Mercosur region of South America as a benefit of improvement to the trade administrations. Improvements to border procedures and processes leading to border procedures can save billions of dollars for the region, create markets for...
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Trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements : are they discriminatory against non-members?
Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken; Lazaro, Dorothea - 2010
Are trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements (FTAs) discriminatory? This important question has yet to be sufficiently explored by the existing literature on trade facilitation. Despite the multilateral scope and non-discriminatory objectives of trade facilitation measures, some...
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Policies to enhance trade facilitation in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Bayley, Anthony - 2014
This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions tend to trade preferentially with distant markets. One of the reasons cited for the limited...
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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation
Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014
We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December 2013 - we show that trade facilitation in a given...
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Trade Facilitation : Developments and the Way Forward for ASEAN and China
Yeoh, Emile - 2013
Trade facilitation is important based on the rationale that all of the processes of international transaction need to go through regulated procedures. Efficient management and implementation of these procedures are thus essential and can serve as one of the channels to enhance a country's...
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The Impacts of East Asia FTA : A CGE Model Simulation Study
Ando, Mitsuyo - 2017
In light of the on-going discussions of the possibility of an East Asia FTA, this paper attempts to estimate the impacts of an East Asia FTA using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Although most previous simulation studies on the impacts of FTAs focus only on the liberalization of...
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