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

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/).

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Iceland 365.00 2019
2 Cyprus 335.00 2019
3 Montenegro 305.56 2019
4 Ireland 253.00 2019
5 Malta 230.00 2019
6 North Macedonia 150.00 2019
7 Norway 125.00 2019
8 Liechtenstein 115.00 2019
8 Switzerland 115.00 2019
10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 108.50 2019
11 Ukraine 100.00 2019
12 Moldova 82.78 2019
13 Albania 77.30 2019
14 Serbia 52.00 2019
15 San Marino 50.00 2019
16 Turkey 46.00 2019
17 Slovak Republic 0.00 2019
17 Slovenia 0.00 2019
17 Sweden 0.00 2019
17 Netherlands 0.00 2019
17 Poland 0.00 2019
17 Portugal 0.00 2019
17 Romania 0.00 2019
17 Italy 0.00 2019
17 Lithuania 0.00 2019
17 Luxembourg 0.00 2019
17 Latvia 0.00 2019
17 Austria 0.00 2019
17 Belgium 0.00 2019
17 Bulgaria 0.00 2019
17 Belarus 0.00 2019
17 Czech Republic 0.00 2019
17 Germany 0.00 2019
17 Denmark 0.00 2019
17 Spain 0.00 2019
17 Estonia 0.00 2019
17 Finland 0.00 2019
17 France 0.00 2019
17 United Kingdom 0.00 2019
17 Greece 0.00 2019
17 Croatia 0.00 2019
17 Hungary 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