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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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To complete the analysis, the external trade with the OIC countries will be examined at product

level.

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

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

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

export products to the OIC):

04: Cereals

06: Sugars

23: Crude rubber

03: Fish

05: Vegetables, fruit

with percentage shares of 34.4 percent, 16.3 percent, 14.4 percent, 12.2 percent, and 7.2 percent,

respectively, representing in total 84.5 percent of total agricultural exports.

With regards to Thailand’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

Thailand’s total agricultural imports from the OIC countries are (top 5 agricultural import

products to the OIC):

03: Fish

09: Miscellaneous p.

41-42-43: Oils, fats, waxe

07: Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices

04: Cereals

with percentage shares of 21.4 percent, 10.2 percent, 10.1 percent, 10.0 percent, and 8.9 percent,

respectively, representing in total 60.6 percent of total agricultural imports.

Thailand’s agricultural trade with OIC countries mainly consists of cereals, sugars, crude rubber,

fish and vegetables, fruit in exports and of fish, miscellaneous, oils, fats, waxe, coffee, tea, cocoa,

spices and cereals in imports. Cereals and fish there are both exported and imported.

However the greatest part of the exports in those 5 export products is to non-OIC countries, with

an increasing trend since 2008 and having attained roughly 80 percent of the total agricultural

exports, versus 75 percent at the beginning (Table 4.48).

Table 4. 48 Distribution of Thailand’s Top 5 Export Products, by Destination, %

African group

Asian group

Arab group

Non-OIC

Countries

Total

2008

7.7

11.1

6.5

74.8

100

2009

7.6

9.9

6.4

76.1

100

2010

5.6

11.4

5.3

77.7

100

2011

4.6

12.6

5.2

77.7

100

2012

4.6

11.1

6.7

77.7

100

2013

4.3

10.3

6.6

78.9

100

2014

7.0

10.7

5.4

77.0

100

2015

5.2

9.3

5.8

79.7

100

2016

5.9

10.2

4.2

79.6

100

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

The share of non-OIC countries as the origin of the top five import products is even higher and

with an increasing trend, since it was 90 percent in 2016 versus 87 percent in 2008 (Table 4.49).