Cost to export, border compliance (US$) - Country Ranking

Definition: Border compliance captures the time and cost associated with compliance with the economy’s customs regulations and with regulations relating to other inspections that are mandatory in order for the shipment to cross the economy’s border, as well as the time and cost for handling that takes place at its port or border. The time and cost for this segment include time and cost for customs clearance and inspection procedures conducted by other government agencies.

Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Dem. Rep. Congo 2,222.69 2019
2 Congo 1,975.00 2019
3 Gabon 1,633.00 2019
4 Samoa 1,400.00 2019
5 South Africa 1,257.00 2019
6 Venezuela 1,250.00 2018
7 Tanzania 1,175.00 2019
8 Iraq 1,117.86 2019
9 Liberia 1,112.50 2019
9 Syrian Arab Republic 1,112.50 2019
11 Uruguay 1,038.00 2019
12 Grenada 1,034.44 2019
13 Cameroon 982.75 2019
14 Sudan 966.50 2019
15 Jamaica 876.00 2019
16 Madagascar 867.73 2019
17 Brazil 861.96 2019
18 Angola 825.00 2019
19 Paraguay 815.00 2019
20 Nigeria 785.71 2019
21 Guinea 777.78 2019
22 Australia 766.00 2019
23 Equatorial Guinea 760.00 2019
24 Mauritania 749.00 2019
25 Namibia 745.00 2019
26 St. Lucia 717.50 2019
27 Belize 710.00 2019
28 Vanuatu 709.00 2019
29 Papua New Guinea 700.00 2019
30 Kuwait 665.00 2019
31 Comoros 650.82 2019
32 Cabo Verde 641.00 2019
33 Peru 630.00 2019
33 Colombia 630.00 2019
33 Solomon Islands 630.00 2019
36 Dominica 625.00 2019
37 Djibouti 605.29 2019
38 Mozambique 601.67 2019
39 Honduras 601.26 2019
40 Algeria 592.89 2019
41 Guinea-Bissau 585.00 2019
42 Russia 580.00 2019
43 Libya 574.86 2019
44 Ecuador 560.00 2019
45 Sierra Leone 551.86 2019
46 Senegal 546.73 2019
47 Antigua and Barbuda 546.39 2019
48 The Bahamas 512.00 2019
49 Palau 505.00 2019
50 Trinidad and Tobago 498.50 2019
51 Somalia 495.00 2019
52 Ghana 490.00 2019
53 Dominican Republic 487.50 2019
54 Barbados 486.00 2019
55 Lebanon 480.00 2019
56 Kazakhstan 470.00 2019
57 Guyana 467.78 2019
58 Suriname 467.50 2019
59 United Arab Emirates 461.67 2019
60 Philippines 456.00 2019
61 Afghanistan 452.78 2019
62 Costa Rica 450.00 2019
63 Myanmar 431.67 2019
64 São Tomé and Principe 426.25 2019
65 Côte d'Ivoire 422.57 2019
66 Kiribati 420.00 2019
67 Iran 415.38 2019
68 Bangladesh 408.17 2019
69 Mexico 400.00 2019
70 Niger 390.78 2019
71 Puerto Rico 385.71 2019
72 Qatar 381.67 2019
73 The Gambia 380.56 2019
74 Cambodia 375.00 2019
75 Tunisia 374.85 2019
76 Malta 370.00 2019
76 Zambia 370.00 2019
78 Haiti 367.50 2019
79 Sri Lanka 366.11 2019
80 Iceland 365.00 2019
81 Benin 354.33 2019
82 Timor-Leste 350.00 2019
83 Germany 345.00 2019
84 Brunei 340.00 2019
84 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 340.00 2019
86 Turkey 338.00 2019
87 New Zealand 337.00 2019
88 St. Kitts and Nevis 335.00 2019
88 Singapore 335.00 2019
90 Seychelles 332.27 2019
91 Chad 319.00 2019
91 Saudi Arabia 319.00 2019
93 Fiji 316.67 2019
94 Botswana 316.54 2019
95 Tajikistan 313.33 2019
96 Guatemala 310.00 2019
97 Ireland 305.00 2019
98 Mauritius 302.63 2019
99 Greece 300.00 2019
99 Cyprus 300.00 2019
101 Chile 290.00 2019
101 Vietnam 290.00 2019
103 Pakistan 288.00 2019
104 Zimbabwe 285.00 2019
105 Central African Republic 280.00 2019
105 United Kingdom 280.00 2019
107 Oman 279.00 2019
108 Uzbekistan 277.89 2019
109 Japan 272.44 2019
110 Panama 270.00 2019
111 Burkina Faso 261.00 2019
112 Egypt 258.00 2019
113 China 256.20 2019
114 Malawi 242.94 2019
115 Mali 241.67 2019
116 Nicaragua 240.00 2019
117 Mongolia 225.11 2019
118 Thailand 222.56 2019
119 Azerbaijan 214.14 2019
120 Finland 212.50 2019
120 Malaysia 212.50 2019
122 India 211.92 2019
123 Indonesia 211.07 2019
124 Uganda 209.38 2019
125 Tonga 201.00 2019
126 Korea 184.72 2019
127 Rwanda 183.33 2019
128 United States 175.00 2019
129 Ethiopia 171.50 2019
130 Canada 166.67 2019
131 Togo 162.50 2019
132 Morocco 155.77 2019
133 Latvia 150.00 2019
133 Lesotho 150.00 2019
133 Israel 150.00 2019
133 Argentina 150.00 2019
137 Kenya 142.50 2019
138 Lao PDR 140.00 2019
139 Eswatini 134.44 2019
140 Jordan 131.29 2019
141 El Salvador 128.33 2019
142 Norway 125.00 2019
143 Switzerland 115.00 2019
143 Liechtenstein 115.00 2019
145 Georgia 112.00 2019
146 Burundi 108.86 2019
147 Nepal 102.86 2019
148 North Macedonia 102.50 2019
149 Armenia 100.00 2019
150 Montenegro 85.00 2019
151 Moldova 76.11 2019
152 Ukraine 75.00 2019
153 Bosnia and Herzegovina 70.00 2019
154 Belarus 65.00 2019
154 Bolivia 65.00 2019
156 Bhutan 59.17 2019
157 Lithuania 58.00 2019
158 Bulgaria 55.00 2019
158 Sweden 55.00 2019
160 Albania 54.67 2019
161 Serbia 47.25 2019
162 Bahrain 47.22 2019
163 Kyrgyz Republic 10.00 2019
164 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.00 2019
164 Croatia 0.00 2019
164 Denmark 0.00 2019
164 Estonia 0.00 2019
164 San Marino 0.00 2019
164 Belgium 0.00 2019
164 Austria 0.00 2019
164 Hungary 0.00 2019
164 Italy 0.00 2019
164 France 0.00 2019
164 Spain 0.00 2019
164 Czech Republic 0.00 2019
164 Luxembourg 0.00 2019
164 Poland 0.00 2019
164 Romania 0.00 2019
164 Slovak Republic 0.00 2019
164 Slovenia 0.00 2019
164 Portugal 0.00 2019
164 Netherlands 0.00 2019

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Limitations and Exceptions: If inspections by agencies other than customs are conducted in 20% or fewer cases, the border compliance time and cost measures take into account only clearance and inspections by customs (the standard case). If inspections by other agencies take place in more than 20% of cases, the time and cost measures account for clearance and inspections by all agencies. Different types of inspections may take place with different probabilities—for example, scanning may take place in 100% of cases while physical inspection occurs in 5% of cases. In situations like this, Doing Business would count the time only for scanning because it happens in more than 20% of cases while physical inspection does not. The border compliance time and cost for an economy do not include the time and cost for compliance with the regulations of any other economy.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The computation of border compliance time and cost depends on where the border compliance procedures take place, who requires and conducts the procedures and what is the probability that inspections will be conducted. If all customs clearance and other inspections take place at the port or border, the time estimate for border compliance takes this simultaneity into account. It is entirely possible that the border compliance time and cost could be negligible or zero, as in the case of trade between members of the European Union or other customs unions. If some or all customs or other inspections take place at other locations, the time and cost for these procedures are added to the time and cost for those that take place at the port or border. In Kazakhstan, for example, all customs clearance and inspections take place at a customs post in Almaty that is not at the land border between Kazakhstan and China. In this case border compliance time is the sum of the time spent at the terminal in Almaty and the handling time at the border. Doing Business asks contributors to estimate the time and cost for clearance and inspections by customs agencies— defined as documentary and physical inspections for the purpose of calculating duties by verifying product classification, confirming quantity, determining origin and checking the veracity of other information on the customs declaration. (This category includes all inspections aimed at preventing smuggling.) These are clearance and inspection procedures that take place in the majority of cases and thus are considered the "standard" case. The time and cost estimates capture the efficiency of the customs agency of the economy. Doing Business also asks contributors to estimate the total time and cost for clearance and inspections by customs and all other government agencies for the specified product. These estimates account for inspections related to health, safety, phytosanitary standards, conformity and the like, and thus capture the efficiency of agencies that require and conduct these additional inspections.

Aggregation method: Unweighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Insurance cost and informal payments for which no receipt is issued are excluded from the costs recorded. Costs are reported in U.S. dollars. Contributors are asked to convert local currency into U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate prevailing on the d