Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies
To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade
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Table 4. 21 OIC Member Countries that Export to Morocco under Preferential Tariffs
African Group Arab Group Asian Group
Benin Comoros Afghanistan
Burkina Faso Djibouti Albania
Chad Egypt* Bangladesh
Côte d'Ivoire Jordan Indonesia*
Gambia Mauritania Iran
Guinea Palestine Kyrgyzstan
Guinea-Bissau Somalia Malaysia
Mali Sudan Pakistan
Mozambique Tunisia* Tajikistan
Niger Yemen Uzbekistan
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Uganda
Source: WTO RTA Database.
Note: Countries marked with an asterisk are among the top 5 OIC countries from which Morocco’s top
import products are imported. Countries written in boldface letters have a free trade agreement in force
with Morocco.
Tariffs
Themost recent WTO Tariff Profile Summary for Morocco indicates that the simple averageMFN
applied tariff for agriculture in Morocco is 27.6% in 2017 and the trade-weighted average in
2016 is 16.2%. The usual case of tariffs in agriculture being larger than tariffs in non-agricultural
sectors is also observed for Morocco. The wedge for the trade-weighted 2016 average is close
two times.
The distribution of applied MFN tariffs in agriculture indicates that, in 2017, less than 7% of all
tariff lines have tariff rates larger than 50% and around 50% of all tariff lines have rates less
than 25%.
Looking at the product line classifications shared in the WTO Tariff Profile summary, applied
MFN rates remain at 2-digit numbers. From the largest to the smallest, the five highest rates are
the following: 69.8% for animal products, 50.9% for dairy products, 36.2% for beverages and
tobacco, 26.2% for fruits, vegetables, and plants, and 21.7% for cereals and preparations.
Applied average MFN tariffs are typically larger than the EU levels in the product line
classifications of the WTO Tariff Profile Summary. The exception here is “Sugars and
confectionary” as the Moroccan MFN applied rate of 20.2% is around 3 percentage points lower
than the EU rate.
Morocco applies preferential tariffs to a diverse set of countries, and Table 4.21 lists 35 OIC
member countries that export to Morocco under preferential tariffs.