Africa: border compliance time to import 2019

Import border compliance demanded 402 hours in Tanzania as of 2019. This was the longest time needed for a shipment to cross a country's borders due to customs regulations and other mandatory inspections in Sub-Saharan Africa. The regional average was 126.2 hours. At the bottom of the ranking, Eswatini recorded a time for export border compliance of three hours.

Time needed for border compliance for imports in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2019, by country (in hours)

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2019

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The source adds the following:
"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".

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