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Analyzing Trade Facilitation Bottlenecks across China-Pakistan Border and Recommendations for Their Improvement under CPEC Framework
Publication: Resilience and Sustainable Transportation Systems
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The study analyzes the role of trade facilitation in enhancing cross border trade and examines the trade facilitation bottlenecks involved in implementing trade across the China-Pakistan border. The study also provides tangible solutions for improving trade procedures to boost cross border trade under the CPEC framework. To achieve the above objective microdata on the actual situation at China-Pakistan border is collected through field visits, questionnaires-based field survey, and domain experts’ interviews. However, in order to minimize existing and future bottlenecks and to suggests improvement in trade facilitation procedures at China-Pakistan border, the study also utilized the internationally available best practices to improve trade facilitation procedures.
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Resilience and Sustainable Transportation Systems
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Editors: Fengxiang Qiao, Ph.D., Texas Southern University, Yong Bai, Ph.D., Marquette University, Pei-Sung Lin, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Steven I Jy Chien, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, Yongping Zhang, Ph.D., California State Polytechnic University, and Lin Zhu, Ph.D., Shanghai University of Engineering Science
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8290-2
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Published online: Jun 29, 2020
Published in print: Jun 29, 2020
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