Trade and transport facilitation assessment : a practical toolkit for country implementation / [foreword, Mona Haddad, Marc Juhel ; prepared by World Bank's International Trade Department, Monica Alina Mustra and Jean-Francois Arvis under the guidance of Bernard Hoekman and Mona Haddad, and experts including John Arnold, Robin Carruthers and Daniel Saslavsky ; CD designed by Anita Nyajur].

The first version of the Toolkit was developed by John Raven and Marc Juhel in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-92).

The Trade and Transport Facilitation audit toolkit provides a simple and cost-effective instrument to analyze bottlenecks in international supply chains and to prepare corrective measures. Its key insight is that considerable knowledge can be easily obtained by interviewing key participants in the commercial or procedural transactions that combine to form international supply chains. These participants include private service providers such as freight forwarders, exporters, transporters and bankers as well as public agencies such as customs, port authorities, and transport regulators. The first chapters introduce the conceptual framework and some of the reasons for conducting an audit. The third describes the implementation of the audit including planning and scheduling, resource requirements and organization of the analysis and preparation of the reports. The annexes provide additional information on the concept, the methodology and content of the audit. The Interview Guides provides the scope for the meetings and checklists for all categories of interviewees and field visits.

Description based on print version record.