Africa: documentary compliance time to export

In 2019, some 192 hours were needed for documentary compliance to export in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as in South Sudan. In Sudan, documentary requirements to export demanded 190 hours. Those were the longest time needed in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the regional average was 71.9 hours. During the same period, the time required for documentary compliance for exports in Lesotho and Eswatini was one hour and two hours, respectively.

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October 2019

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2019

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The source adds the following:
"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".

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