Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies
To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade
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and projects that would support the effective sharing of best-practice cases in
agriculture and agricultural trade.
 New projects should be designed and conducted (i) to thoroughly identify the data
availability and reliability problems in agricultural trade policy measures all across the
OIC and (ii) to develop institutional reform agendas that would help the OIC member
countries alleviate the existing capability problems in the near future. A more specific
policy action may be establishing a new division on agricultural trade policy measures
within SESRIC and benefiting from this organ’s established capacities in data collecting
and dissemination.
 It is also recommended that Agriculture and Trade working groups of the COMCEC
should work together with an understanding that evaluates trade as a whole and treat
agricultural trade as a subset of overall trade. One research question that should be
targeted with this broad view is concerned with the tariff equivalents of NTMs. A well-
structured project should aim at calculating these tariff equivalents for a sufficiently
large set of products and countries. The methodologies explained and exemplified in
WTO’s (2012) A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis may be used to structure such a
research project. Another way to go forward is to develop and analyze general
equilibrium models of trade policies and trade integration both within the OIC and
between the OIC and non-OIC countries.