During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, restrictions on mobility significantly increased trade time and cost at the borders in many landlocked developing countries. Using monthly bilateral time measures at borders in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, this paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 mobility measures on the time for cargo to clear borders. The impulse response function estimation suggests that time could increase up to 70% when the most stringent level of mobility restrictions was imposed. The results suggest that outbound border-crossing points were more affected by measures than inbound points, but were more resilient in that impact was short-lived. We find that both inbound and outbound times increased when mobility restrictions in a trading partner tightened. Given a country, increasing its stringency measures had longer impacts on inbound time, while the measure occurring in a partner country had more lingering impact on outbound time. We also found heterogeneity in the response of each country in magnitude and timing of the impact of the stringency measures.