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Abdoullahi FAOUZIChief Information Officer
GUCE-GIE----
SW Focal Point at ADB/WB Unit for FASTRAC PROJECT
OIC High Level Forum on Trade Facilitation & Single Window Initiatives ForEnhanced Regional Economic Cooperation
Casablanca, 26 Février 2013
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AGENDA
CONTEXT & ISSUESCONTEXT & ISSUES
FACILITATION INITIATIVESFACILITATION INITIATIVES
TRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATIONTRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATION
RELEVANT RESULTSRELEVANT RESULTS
CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION
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AGENDA
CONTEXT & ISSUESCONTEXT & ISSUES
FACILITATION INITIATIVESFACILITATION INITIATIVES
TRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATIONTRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATION
RELEVANT RESULTSRELEVANT RESULTS
CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION
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Context & Issues
• Country with open sea
• Natural trading door for landlockedcountries of CEMAC (CHAD, CAR)
• Trade flows with the north of Congo
• Major advantage of Cameroon, the Portof Douala (PAD), which provides 95% ofnational port traffic, is also the first port ofCEMAC, serving with preferential rates,Chad and Central African Republic
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION
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Context & IssuesTRANSIT ROUTES
• Cameroon is like the toChad and the CentralAfrican Republic whereare transiting 80% oftheir imports andexports.
• According to the NationalShippers' Council ofCameroon (NSCC), thetransport sectorgenerates an overallactivity estimated at 15%of Cameroon's GDP
“Despite its position […] Central Africa Subregion remains one of the leastintegrated of the continent in terms of inter-state trade flows, movement ofpersons or interconnection of physical infrastructure”
2009, Mamadou Hachim Koumaré,Director of the Sub-regional Office for Central Africa UNECA
CEMAC: The internal trade is less than 1% of GDP
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Context & IssuesTOUGH TRADING ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMY Trading AcrossBorders rank
Documents toexport(number)
Time to export(days)
Cost to export(US$ percontainer)
Documents toimport(number)
Time toimport (days)
Cost to import(US$ percontainer)
East Asia &Pacific .. 6 21 923 7 22 958
EasternEurope &Central Asia
.. 7 26 2,134 8 29 2,349
Latin America& Caribbean .. 6 17 1,268 7 19 1,612
Middle East &North Africa .. 6 19 1,083 8 22 1,275
OECD highincome .. 4 10 1,028 5 10 1,080
South Asia .. 8 32 1,603 9 33 1,736
Sub-SaharanAfrica .. 8 31 1,990 9 37 2,567
CAMEROON 157 11 23 1,379 12 25 2,167
CHAD 182 9 54 5,491 17 62 5,554
CAR 180 8 75 5,902 11 101 8,525
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AGENDA
CONTEXT & ISSUESCONTEXT & ISSUES
FACILITATION INITIATIVESFACILITATION INITIATIVES
TRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATIONTRANSPORT & TRANSIT FACILITATION