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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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exports followed by African group and Asian group. African group’s share increased from 1.5%

to 3.6% over the period of 2008 and 2016. The share of Morocco’s agricultural exports to the

Asian group has been following a relatively stable trend within the same period, reflecting an

increase from 0.4% to 2.3%.

Figure 4. 17 Share of OIC Groups in Morocco’s Agricultural Exports

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

Figure 4. 18 Share of OIC Groups in Morocco’s Agricultural Imports

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

The distribution of Morocco’s agricultural imports according to the three OIC member country

groups is shown in Figure 4.18. The share of Arab group decreased from 4.4% to 3.4% from

2008 to 2014, but recovered with an increase to 5% in 2016. All three groups exhibited

increasing shares and values in Morocco’s agricultural imports over the period of 2008 and

2016. The share of Asian group increased from 0.3% to 2.5%with an increase of 0.1 billion USD

in volume. The African group’s share increased from 0.7% to 1.8%with an increase of 0.1 billion

USD in volume during the same period.

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