Search Results for: customs

March 12, 2019

Reducing Barriers To Trade

Reducing Barriers to Trade Barriers to trade in Eastern Africa significantly raise trade costs for firms, eroding the competitiveness of the region’s goods and services, inhibiting exports and ultimately stifling prosperity. High internal or regional trade costs present a major obstacle to firms’ ability to connect to global value chains, effectively nullifying any comparative advantage [...]

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November 17, 2012

E.A Spotlight 8 (Nov 17 2012)

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April 5, 2017

SWIFT – Ministry of Agriculture

Why this project? What How Contact Desired Results Project Insights Impact stories project briefSWIFT – Ministry of Agriculture ImplementorTanzania Ministry of Agriculture Target GroupImporters and Exporters in East Africa Project ValueUS$ 290,000 Implementation Period2012 - 2017 Download Project PDF Why this project?Traders in the East African Community (EAC) currently spend numerous days visiting multiple government [...]

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June 27, 2019

Advocacy Overview

Advocacy The Public-Private Sector Dialogue (PPD) for Trade and Investment Programme mainstreams advocacy throughout TMA’s project clusters, i.e. in transport and logistics, trade facilitation, customs and tax, standards, NTBs and export capability. The programme’s core objective is to enhance private sector organisations’ (PSO) capacity to proactively and positively influence policy reforms, to accelerate dispute resolution [...]

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September 1, 2021

Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS)

Why this project? What How Contact Desired Results Project Insights Impact stories project briefIntegrated Border Management For Sirali ImplementorTanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Target GroupImporters and Exporters in East Africa Project Value$xxxxxx Implementation PeriodApril 2019 – June 2021 Download Project PDF Why this project?ECTS will address the following challenges: Lack of holistic end to end transit [...]

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November 11, 2014

Search for Common Ground (Phase II)

Why this project? What How Contact Desired Results Project Insights Impact stories project briefSearch for Common Ground (Phase II) ImplementorSearch for Common Ground Target GroupSmall traders and Border officials Project ValueUS$ 200,000 Implementation Period2013 - 2017 Download Project PDF Why this project?Burundi, as other East African economies, has a large informal trade sector, non-integrated with [...]

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September 1, 2021

Advocacy and PPD dialogue platforms Programme

Why this project? What How Contact Desired Results Project Insights Impact stories project briefAdvocacy and PPD dialogue platforms Programme ImplementorTanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) Target GroupPublic and Private Sector group Project ValueUS$2,280,000 Implementation PeriodSeptember 2018- August 2023 Download Project PDF Why this project?To strengthen and sustain Tanzania’s trade and investment; it is critical that an [...]

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October 16, 2017

Revenue Statistics in Africa 1990-2015

Revenue Statistics in Africa is a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the African Tax Administration Forum and the African Union Commission, with the technical support of the African Development Bank, the World Customs Organisation and the Centre de rencontres et d’études des dirigeants des administrations […]

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September 25, 2014

Uganda National Single Window

Why this project? What How Contact Desired Results Project Insights Impact stories project briefUganda National Single Window ImplementorUganda Revenue Authority and Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives Target GroupRegulatory Agencies,Importers and exporters Project ValueUS$ 5,000,000 Implementation Period2015 - 2017 Download Project PDF Why this project?According to the Private Sector Foundation Uganda 2013 report, in Uganda, [...]

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July 3, 2014

Completing the EAC Customs Union: A General Equilibrium Assessment

This study provides a computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulation assessment of progress in completing the EAC Customs Union since 2007.

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