Assessing The Performance Of Ethiopian Customs Commission In Reference To Import Trade Facilitation Perspective Of Wheat And Palm Oil Importer

The latest reports designed to monitor and evaluate country’s performance on trade facilitationrnmetrics revealed Ethiopia’s performance through Ease of Doing Business, LogisticsrnPerformance Index, Trade Facilitation Index, and Enabling Trading Index was at lower level.rnWith this deprived status no studies had been conducted in Ethiopia on the limitation definedrn(most studies particularly focused on Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmentrncountries). The main intent of this work was to evaluate the trade facilitation instrumentsrnproposed by World Trade Organization with the ongoing activities in Ethiopia’s import trade,rnthereby identifying existing gaps, assessing the overall consistency of the activities and delineaternpotentials for improving the business environment through prioritizing Trade facilitationrnmeasures. In assessment of this descriptive type of research and find solution for the problem thernresearcher used quantitative approach and presents the analyzed data through latest version ofrnStatistical Package for Statistical Software 20 of semi-structured questionnaire collected fromrnjudgmentally selected 56 representatives of importers, Customs Clearing Agent and EthiopianrnCustoms Commission. The finding of the study revealed that the performances of EthiopianrnCustoms Commission in facilitating import trade have at deprived level. Among the indicatorsrnassessed appeal procedure, risk management, post clearance audit and authorize economicrnprograms had implemented in better of other measures. The reasons indicated that therninstitution’s poor system on accessing information in all customs related matters, lack ofrntransparency to involve public and stalk holders at their level of content and less concerns madernto automate the formalities. Finally to enhance trade facilitation through Ethiopian CustomsrnCommission the study recommended: the commission to establish a system which enable tornconsult on changes made through public media and efficiently designed website; furnish itsrnwebsite and feed any changes; design the program to implement automation system as prompt asrnpossible and revitalize the existing system and transform it in best practice of Organization forrnEconomic Cooperation and Development or any succeeding countries.

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