More than seven decades of trade experience, since the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) entered in to force, has showed that the global trade brought prosperity to
the nations and reduced the poverty. As a result, the importance of smooth flow of crossborder
trade is well understood by all trader countries. Hence the notion of trade facilitation
stays as a hot toping of international trade negotiations. Improving the hard infrastructure
of trade environment is the priority focus of developing countries whereas developed
countries shifted their focal point to modernize the soft infrastructure of their trade
environment.
United States, who enjoys the second largest share of global trade, is one of those counties
whose cross-border implementations are closely followed by the rest of the world. Trade
facilitation implementations and applications of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
is used as a base for best practices in many countries. The perfect combination of
facilitation and enforcement is key to establish and sustain a global competitiveness for US
companies.
After recognition of reasons behind the trade facilitation efforts around the globe and broad
definition of the concept, this study explicates the background of trade facilitation and enforcement legislations as well as current trade facilitation implementations in U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/35681 |
| Date | 14 May 2019 |
| Creators | Şen, Faruk |
| Contributors | Sullivan, John D. |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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