Workshop 9: Trading Across Borders

Egypt’s ranking in the Cross-Border Trade Index, one of the main significant indicators of the World Bank’s Doing Business Index, fell to 171 out of countries 190 in 2019, down from 170 in the previous year. The Cross-Border Trade Index measures the time and cost of clearance of imported and exported shipments, and thus examines the systems of ports, customs and the General Organization for Exports and Imports as well as all other regulatory bodies involved in the clearance procedures such as the quarantine and veterinary procedures, explosives detection, and the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA), etc. This workshop discussed cross-border trade, the problems it faces and ways to improve Egypt’s ranking in the cross-border trade index.