Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies
To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade
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projects that would support the effective sharing of best-practice cases in agriculture
and agricultural trade.
 New projects could be designed and conducted (i) to thoroughly identify the data
availability and reliability problems in agricultural trade policy measures all across the
OIC and (ii) to develop institutional reform agendas that would help the OIC member
countries alleviate the existing capability problems in the near future. A more specific
policy action may be establishing a new division on agricultural trade policy measures
within SESRIC and benefiting from this organ’s established capacities in data collecting
and dissemination.
 It is also recommended that Agriculture and Trade working groups of the COMCEC work
together with an understanding that evaluates trade as a whole and treat agricultural
trade as a subset of overall trade. One research question that may be targeted with this
broad view is concerned with the tariff equivalents of NTMs. A well-structured project
could aim at calculating these tariff equivalents for a sufficiently large set of products
and countries. The methodologies explained and exemplified in WTO’s (2012) A
Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis may be used to structure such a research project.
Another way to go forward is to develop and analyze general equilibrium models of
trade policies and trade integration both within the OIC and between the OIC and non-
OIC countries.