Mongolia's Customs Digitalization Pledges Speed Yet Delays Persist

Ulaanbaatar’s customs officials have set an ambitious target. Goods should be cleared at the border in just sixty minutes. The new digital blueprint promises to untangle Mongolia’s trade arteries with smart gates and seamless data exchanges. But on the ground the reality looks different.

Bureaucratic inertia and chronic underfunding continue to turn the country’s borders into choke points.

For exporters, customs delays, not geopolitics, are often the bigger obstacle. A declaration requires 116 separate fields of information and more than 40 documents, much of it duplicative.

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