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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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Figure 3. 5 Breakdown of Agricultural Trade by Geographic Groups and Divisions, 2016

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

calculations

3.1.2. Agricultural trade of the OIC groups by countries of origin and destinations

This section presents the agricultural exports and imports of the OIC country groups according

to their top 5 export product divisions identified above. Figure 3.6 demonstrates the export

destinations for the top 5 export product divisions of the African group countries according to

OIC country groups and non-OIC countries. The figure shows that, among the OIC country

groups, the Asian group is the top destination of the African group exports. The share of the

Asian group in the African group’s top 5 agricultural exports increased from 3.9% in 2008 to

6.3% in 2016. Nonetheless, the shares of the African and Arab countries are lower than the Asian

group’s share, with percentage shares of 3.0% and 2.9% in 2016, respectively. The share of non-