• Nontariff barriers such as customs delays.
SSA suffers from the highest average custom
delays in the world. While many of the
formerly closed economies of Central and
Eastern Europe, Estonia and Lithuania in
particular, require only one day for customs
clearance, Ethiopia requires 30 days.
The average customs delay in SSA is 11.4
days, while average customs delay in
Western Europe is 3.9 days.92