Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies
To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade
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of OIC as destination for the country's overall agricultural exports. Table F.12 demonstrates that
the share of the OIC countries as export destination for the top three export products is generally
lower than the share of OIC countries as export destination of the agricultural products except
for exports originating from Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, S. Arabia, Senegal and
Somalia, an indication that OIC is not a major export market of the top export products for most
of the OIC countries.
Table 3. 13 OIC Countries with High Export Shares but Facing High Tariff Rates in OIC
Country
Products for which OIC has a large share in the country’s agricultural
imports but the tariffs implemented by the OIC countries are high
Afghanistan
Grapes, fresh
Apples, fresh
Albania
Spices (excl. pepper/pimento/headings 075.21 - 075.28); mixtures of two/more
of the products of different headings of group 075
Algeria Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter
Azerbaijan Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter
Brunei Darussalam Pineapple juice
Cameroon
Wood of non-coniferous species specified in heading 247.5, sawn/chipped
lengthwise, sliced/peeled, whether/not planed, sanded/end-jointed, of a
thickness exceeding 6 mm
Chad Sesame (Sesamum) seeds
Comoros
Spices (excl. pepper/pimento/headings 075.21 - 075.28); mixtures of two/more
of the products of different headings of group 075
Gabon Woods in the rough/roughly squared, n.e.s.
Gambia
Milk & cream, not concentrated/sweetened, of a fat content, by weight,
exceeding 1% but not > 6%
Linseed oil, refined, & its fractions
Other sauces & preparations therefor; mixed condiments & mixed seasonings
Palestine Dates, fresh/dried
Guyana
Fruits/edible parts of plants, prepared/preserved, n.e.s.
Live animals, n.e.s.
Indonesia Palm oil, refined, & its fractions
Iran Grapes, dried (e.g., raisins)
Kazakhstan Other wheat (including spelt) & meslin, unmilled
Kyrgyzstan
Beans, other than broad beans & horse beans, dried, shelled, whether/not
skinned/split
Lebanon Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter
Malaysia
Palm oil, refined, & its fractions
Vegetable fats & oils & their fractions, partly/wholly hydrogenate
Mauritania Salmonidae, frozen (excluding livers & roes)
Source: ITC Macmap, CEPII BACI, Eurostat RAMON, UN Comtrade, UN Trade Statistics, and authors’
calculation Note: The share of OIC as destination for the country's export of the product is greater than
the share of OIC as destination for the country's agricultural exports AND the weighted average tariff
rates implemented by OIC members to the country's export of the product is greater than the weighted
average tariff rates implemented by OIC members to the country's agricultural exports
The reason that the OIC market is not a preferred export destination for most of the OIC
countries is partially due to high tariff protection of the OIC member countries, particularly for
the agricultural exports. For instance, among the 57 OIC countries, only Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait,
Libya, Maldives, Qatar, Uzbekistan and Yemen are imposed by lower weighted average tariff
rates for their top 5 agricultural export products, thus facing with low protection against their
exports in the OIC market. All other countries have at least one top export product with tariff
rates implemented by the OIC countries that are higher than the average intra-OIC agricultural
tariff rates imposed to the country. The highest tariff rates in intra-OIC agricultural trade is for