03 - Conceptualising Highly Facilitated Trade Corridors in Southern Asia Abstract

An important aspect of achieving such synergy would be to develop a holistic framework for agencies of the countries in the corridors to work together and address the physical and regulatory bottlenecks that impede the efficient movement of goods across borders. [...] Typical border crossings in and procedures that govern the cross-border the US-Mexico border or the border between movement of vehicles (including trucks) and European Union (EU) and non-EU border trains, such as the physical inspections and states take less than 30 minutes. [...] A good example of this is the Lobito Corridor Cross-border transport infrastructure challenges that connects the hinterlands of landlocked refer to last-mile connectivity between many Zambia and the Democratic Republic of border points and the main trunk infrastructure. [...] Collaboration between customs and other of the last-mile to-the-border and at-the- regulators at the border to minimise time border infrastructure gaps, making it integral and complexity for clearance of goods: to the ten-year action plan. [...] Post this, in-principle commitment to exchange protocols: A critical trade the set of reforms and interventions required facilitation measure for customs and to achieve the connectivity and facilitation- other clearances related to the overland related objectives of the HFTC, a time-bound movement of goods is the exchange of pre- implementation plan needs to be put in place.