Do Private Inspection Programs Affect Trade Facilitation?

• Tác giả: Irina Velea
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 351.82 Public administration
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 317747
• Chủ đề: 1. AGGREGATE IMPORTS; 2. AGGREGATE TRADE; 3. AGGREGATE TRADE FLOWS; 4. AVERAGE TARIFF; 5. BEST PRACTICES

Tóm tắt

Private inspection of international shipments has been used over the last half-century for a variety of purposes. These include prevention of capital flight and improvement of import duty collection, among others. The existing literature has failed to find much impact of these inspection programs on collected tariff revenue or corruption at the border. This paper explores the "facilitation" effect of private inspection programs on trade. The results indicate that private inspection has a positive and significant trade-facilitation effect. These programs raise import volumes for countries using them by approximately 2 to 10 percent. The findings here also suggest that the benefit of private inspection of imports may be associated with reforms and best practices applied by private inspection firms. Private firms' inspection of cargo may promote faster clearance times and process reliability, rather than improved tax collection.