This page describes why a jurisdiction appears in published enforcement records and typology reports. It is not an assessment of the country, its government or its businesses. Every jurisdiction listed here is a substantial legitimate economy, and appearing in this reference is usually a consequence of trade volume and connectivity rather than of weak rules.
Why it appears
Georgia’s relevance is geographic and statistical. It sits on a transit corridor between Türkiye, the Black Sea, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and it has a substantial vehicle and machinery re-export trade.
Both features put it in the same category as the other transit economies examined on this site: the analysis is conducted on published trade data, at commodity-code level, and the finding is about flows rather than about firms.
The methodological caveat, again
Re-export economies show large gross trade figures relative to their size by definition. That is what a re-export economy is. Distinguishing ordinary entrepôt trade from re-routing requires looking at specific monitored codes and at whether the pattern changed when a direct route closed, not at trade volumes in aggregate.