Overview and Structure of World Bank Customs Projects

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Overview and Structure of World Bank Customs
Projects
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Customs-related projects 1981-2002 All projects
Total project costs Percent
Total number of projects 122
Customs- specific costs ( million) 1,517 10,308 15

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Types of operations

• Part of structural adjustment loans
• Specific investment loan
• Customs-specific TA project
• Customs-related cost from less than 1 million up
  to 140 million

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Customs investment and TA projects
Total number of customs-related projects 36
Total customs-specific cost to WB ( million) - approved 211
Total customs-specific cost to WB ( million) - disbursed 63
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Major TA operations

• Completed
• Philippines, Albania
• Ongoing
• Turkey, Colombia, Tanzania, Guatemala, TTFSE
  Bulgaria, Romania, FYRM, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia
• Upcoming
• Russia, Pakistan (?)

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Performance of customs-related projects
FY 1981-2002 FY 1996-2002
No. of projects 83 24
Outcome satisfactory 82 83
Sustainability likely 66 71
Substantial institutional development impact 39 29
Bank performance satisfactory 46 83
Borrower performance satisfactory 46 88
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Key Project Components

• Customs control and clearance
• Trade facilitation
• Organizational structure and management
• HRM and training
• Improving the integrity of the customs service
• IT
• Legal and appeals

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Design of new performance management criteria

• Limited role of collection targets
• Trade facilitation benchmarks
• Efficiency/collection costs

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TTFSE Monthly maximum examinations( on
September 30)

2000 2001 2002
Bulgaria 12 10 8
Croatia 50 35 25
Romania 85 50 45
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Key challenges Risk analysis

• Reduction in the number of physical inspections
• Reduce discretion of customs inspectors
• Improve post-clearance audit capacity

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Addressing Integrity Issues

• Severe corruption problem in customs
  administrations
• Corruption risk maps
• Design of an anti-corruption strategy
• Strengthening the internal audit function

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Improving private-public interactions

• Improvement of service quality
• Develop consultative relationships with traders
• Interactive websites
• Regular business surveys as progress monitoring
  tools

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Partnerships

• IMF
• UNCTAD
• EU Phare/Tacis
• US