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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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Top 5 Agricultural export and import products of Brazil in the OIC Markets

According to the latest available three-year averages (2014-2016), the products that have the

top five shares in Brazil’s total agricultural exports to the OIC countries are (top 5 agricultural

export products to the OIC):

06: Sugars

01: Meat

04: Cereals

08: Feeding stuff for animals

22: Oil-seeds

with percentage shares of 35.1%, 26.1%, 14.1%, 6.6%, and 5.2%, respectively.

With regards to Brazil’s top agricultural imports from the OIC countries, according to the latest

available three year averages (2014-2016), the products that have the top five shares in Brazil’s

total agricultural imports from the OIC countries are (top 5 agricultural import products to the

OIC):

41-42-43: Oils, fats, waxe

23: Crude rubber

05: Vegetables, fruit

07: Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices

03: Fish

with percentage shares of 40.4%, 25.7%, 13.1%, 6.4%, and 3.7%, respectively.

The products in the two lists are mutually exclusive. The commonly exported products fromOIC

countries are not commonly imported by Brazil.

Table 4.58 shows the distribution of the total export value of the top 5 export products to the

OIC countries according to destinations. The share of non-OIC countries in total OIC exports of

top five agricultural export products declined from 80% in 2008 to 72.7% in 2016. The Asian

group’s share has shown the greatest increase during the observation period. The Asian group’s

share increased from 4.7% in 2008 to 10.7% in 2016 in total exports at the expense of non-OIC

countries. The share of the Arab group slightly increased from 13.2% in 2008 to 14.7% in 2016,

while the African group’s share did not change much.

Table 4. 58 Distribution of Brazil’s Top 5 Export Products, by Destination, %

African group

Asian group

Arab group

Non-OIC

Countries

Total

2008

2.0

4.7

13.2

80.0

100

2009

2.7

6.6

15.5

75.2

100

2010

2.4

9.7

17.2

70.7

100

2011

3.0

8.1

16.8

72.1

100

2012

2.7

7.6

16.9

72.8

100

2013

2.0

7.2

14.6

76.2

100

2014

1.9

7.9

13.4

76.8

100

2015

1.7

8.7

14.4

75.2

100

2016

1.9

10.7

14.7

72.7

100

Source: CEPII BACI, Eurostat RAMON, UN Comtrade, UN Trade Statistics, and authors’ calculations