Competitiveness and macroeconomic impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. land freight border crossings |
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Institution: | 1. Roma Tre University, Department of Engineering, Via della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146 Rome, Italy;2. Senior Research Engineer, TrenoLab SrLS, Via Maniacco, 7/A, 34170, Gorizia, Italy;1. Department of Supply Chain Analytics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, Alma Mater Università di Bologna, Bologna 40136, Italy |
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Abstract: | We analyze the macroeconomic and trade impacts of reducing wait times by adding one customs officer at each of the twelve major land freight crossings of the U.S. The change in wait time stemming from staffing changes is first estimated on the basis of primary data and then translated into changes in freight costs through a logistical model. The transportation cost changes are then fed into a multi-country computable general equilibrium model. We find that adding one customs officer at each land border crossing would, on average per crossing, generate an increase in U.S. GDP of $350 thousand and 3.58 additional jobs. |
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Keywords: | Trade competitiveness Inspection wait times Macroeconomic impacts Freight transportation |
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