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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.