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The stakeholders likely to be directly involved in these project components are listed in tables B.2 and B.3 (appendix B). 2 For example, a requirement that truckers had to guarantee payment of duties before entering a neighboring country created long queues of vehicles exiting the country. This caused congestion on the road network and rent seeking behavior by officials at the point of exit. In contrast, the neighboring country had an efficient, uncongested clearance operation. 3 A common example is the tendency to blame customs for delays that are caused by other participants in the supply chain. One of the purposes of the World Customs Organization’s time release studies has been to differentiate the delays caused by customs procedures from those arising from the actions of other border management agencies and from the actions of the shippers. 4 Typical examples include government mandates to significantly increase collection of tariff revenues to meet revenue targets or the introduction of new security procedures with little thought as to their impact on trade or even the likelihood that they will achieve their stated objective. 1
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