Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Time to export

Time to export, border compliance (hours)

The value for Time to export, border compliance (hours) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 99.21 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 5 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 108.56 in 2015 and a minimum value of 99.21 in 2018.

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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Year Value
2014 106.17
2015 108.56
2016 107.99
2017 105.16
2018 99.21
2019 99.21

Time to export, documentary compliance (hours)

The value for Time to export, documentary compliance (hours) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 82.05 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 5 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.68 in 2014 and a minimum value of 82.05 in 2018.

Definition: Documentary compliance captures the time and cost associated with compliance with the documentary requirements of all government agencies of the origin economy, the destination economy and any transit economies. The aim is to measure the total burden of preparing the bundle of documents that will enable completion of the international trade for the product and partner pair assumed in the case study.

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

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Year Value
2014 94.68
2015 93.12
2016 92.10
2017 87.19
2018 82.05
2019 82.05

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade facilitation