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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 Chad in the OIC Markets

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

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

export products to the OIC):

22: Oil-seeds

263: Cotton

08: Feeding stuff for animals

21: Hides, skins

00: Live animals

with percentage shares of 83.4%, 14.9%, 1.0%, 0.5%, and 0.1%, respectively.

With regards to Chad’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 Chad’s

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

OIC):

11-12: Beverages, tobacco

04: Cereals

09: Miscellaneous p.

05: Vegetables, fruit

06: Sugars

with percentage shares of 29.6%, 25.0%, 21.3%, 10.1%, and 5.6%, respectively.

The products in the two lists are mutually exclusive. Chad does not commonly import the

commonly exported products from OIC countries.

Table 4. 39 Distribution of Chad’s Top 5 Export Products, by Destination, %

African group

Asian group

Arab group

Non-OIC

Countries

Total

2008

2.0

98.0

100

2009

0.2

99.8

100

2010

0.7

9.2

1.0

89.1

100

2011

2.5

6.4

91.1

100

2012

0.1

27.1

5.6

67.2

100

2013

4.6

32.4

2.0

61.0

100

2014

6.0

40.9

1.9

51.2

100

2015

2.0

98.0

100

2016

0.2

99.8

100

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

Table 4.39 shows the distribution of the total export value of the top five export products of Chad

to the OIC countries according to destinations. With some data missing, non-OIC countries

constitute the most of Chad’s top five agricultural product exports. The Asian group’s share has

increased from 9.2 to 40.9 in the expense of non-OIC countries between 2010 and 2014, but

declined to 2% in 2015. The available data shows that the shares of the African and the Arab

groups have been small during the observation period, not exceeding 6%.

Table 4.40 shows the distribution of the top five agricultural products from the OIC countries

according to the region of origin. Non-OIC countries provide the majority of Chad’s import of the

top five agricultural products. The data shows that Chad’s imports have not been from a stable

source with country shares radically changing within the observation period. As of 2016, the