Title:
Trade Efficiency Project: Recommendations
Code:
TRAD/c99/3
Supervisor:
Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform – Ministry of Economy and Trade – World Bank
Author:
Paul Kimberley and Associates
Page Numbers:
137
Summary:
Executive Summary
Acronyms Used During the Project
Useful Web Site
1. Introduction
1.1. This Report
1.2. Style
1.3. Objectives
1.4. Contents
2. Preamble
2.1. The Hygiene Factor
2.2. Acknowledgements
3. Background
3.1. Introduction to Lebanese Trade Processes 1998
3.2. The Players in the Lebanese Trade Process
3.3. Overview of the Lebanese Trade Process
3.4. Process Summary
3.5. Technical Controls
3.6. Delays: Some Explanations
3.7. Costs Summaries
3.8. Delays
3.9. Conclusion: Gaps, Barriers and Redundancies
4. Principles and Requirements of Redesign
4.1. Specific Objectives
4.2. Choices
4.3. Specific Problems to be Solved
4.4. What can we build on?
4.5. Principles of Systems Redesign
4.6. Fundamental Techniques to be Used
5. Overview of Recommendations
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Sequence of Events in Reengineered Process
6. State of Readiness
6.1. Selecting Foreign EC/ EDI Trading Partners
6.2. Selecting Lebanese EC/ EDI Trading Partners
6.3. Pioneers
7. Detailed Recommendations
7.1.The Lebanese Trader
7.2.Trade Professionals
7.3. Customs
7.4. The Port, Harbor and Container Handlers
7.5.Technical Controls
7.6.The Implementation Authority
8. Libanfac
8.1. Organisation
8.2. Special Interest Groups (SIG)
8.3. Other Industry User Groups
9. International Best Practice
9.1. Large Open Economies
9.2. Smaller Open Economies
9.3. Managed Economies
9.4. Model or Emulate?
9.5. Motivation
10. The Business Case
10.1.TIS Costs
10.2.TIS Revenues Potential
10.3.TIS Summary
10.4. Libanfac Revenue Potential
10.5. Libanfac Summary
10.6. Business Planning
11. Project Planning
11.1. Assumptions
11.2.TIS Project
11.3.Trade Process Project
12. Summary
13. Epilogue
14. Appendix
Year:
1999
Sub-Sector:
Trade