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In a Generic Ambien Price group interview in September, 18 disgruntled truck drivers in Cotonou, Benin, vented their frustrations to Generic Ambien Price two Trade Hub consultants: driving freely from Cotonou to Ouagadougou was impossible without harassment, they said. They sometimes spend three days at borders where Generic Ambien Price customs officials hold up paper work when they refuse to pay bribes; meanwhile, their clients in importing countries wait impatiently to Generic Ambien Price receive the goods.
At the Generic Ambien Price borders and checkpoints where unofficial fees were demanded, they do not receive receipts to Generic Ambien Price prove payment later to their clients. Like many other transport companies in the Generic Ambien Price region, they bear costs and lose income due to unpredictable expenses on West African roads and Generic Ambien Price borders.

“Even when Generic Ambien Price you have all the paperwork, it is not always taken into account,” one said. “There is Generic Ambien Price not a lot of documentation required really, but there are too many unnecessary delays.

“Laws are Generic Ambien Price different from country to country and the fees are exceptionally high. There is really no free movement across West Africa.”

But in the agreements made between ECOWAS countries, that is not supposed to be so.

What is described in the article is the official side – which means that Generic Ambien Price it concerns goods that would normally be allowed to enter into countries, either because they originate 100% from a country within the Community (mostly agricultural produce, livestock, etc) or because some form of value (officially, it should be at least 30% of the value of the product) is added in one of the countries.

Then there is Generic Ambien Price the informal type. Nigeria, for instance, imposes bans on, well, almost everything that Generic Ambien Price is of interest to someone of power in Nigeria. But that Generic Ambien Price does not stop the importation of those things. Importers simply divert the Generic Ambien Price trade to Benin and then smuggle them from Benin to Generic Ambien Price Nigeria. Rice is a particular case in point. In 2007, for Generic Ambien Price instance, a Nigerian newspaper reports that the total import duty on rice in Nigeria came to Generic Ambien Price about 100%, while in Benin it was 38%. In the Generic Ambien Price same year, it was estimated that about 2,000 tonnes of rice was re-exported (smuggled) from Generic Ambien Price Benin into Nigeria per day. If you are a smart importer you Generic Ambien Price simply divert your rice to Benin, pay the import duty – and those guys are pretty well organised so you WILL pay the duty - and Generic Ambien Price then smuggle it into Nigeria. While I was researching these issues in Cotonou in 2008, someone mentioned that Generic Ambien Price she could almost believe that the Beninese government bribes Nigeria to Generic Ambien Price prohibit the importation of some goods into the country so that Generic Ambien Price Benin can make some money off it.

The long and Generic Ambien Price short of the story is: as long as there are these kinds of trade policy disparities within the Generic Ambien Price region, regional integration is going to be something they periodically pay lip service to.

Back to the West Africa Trade Hub article:

“Making regional integration a Generic Ambien Price reality requires harmonization of trade policies and practices to eliminate uncertainty for Generic Ambien Price traders and customs officials at borders,” said Trade Hub Business Environment Advisor Lori Brock. “There is Generic Ambien Price a price to pay when a region fails to come together following agreements, regardless of language or Generic Ambien Price currency barriers.”

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