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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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The FAPDA tool covers three groups of policies. Consumer oriented policies are the policies that

aim to improve food security and nutrition. The consumer oriented policies cover measures

such as tax, social protection, market management, disposable income, nutritional and health

assistance. Producer oriented policies cover policy tools whose purpose is to support farmers.

The measures that are covered by producer oriented policies are production support, market

management, natural resources management and institutional and organizational measures.

The trade oriented policies whose aims are to support consumers and producers cover

measures directly affecting imports, exports, trade related measures and macroeconomic policy

decisions.

Table 3.7 presents the policies that are currently practiced in the OIC member countries

according to the available data from FAPDA. The figures reveal that there are a total of 167

producer oriented policies and 60 trade oriented policies. These numbers are again sensitive to

the number of countries for which data is available, but the plain averages across groups do not

exhibit considerable differences with respect to the policy orientation.

Figure 3. 13 Quadrant Scatter Graph: OIC

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

Note: Bubble size represents total import volume of OIC countries.

3.4. Bilateral agricultural trade flows and policy analysis

As presented in Section 3.1 above, the share of the non-OIC countries in the external trade of the

top 5 export product divisions of the OIC group countries demonstrates a slight downward

trend, particularly for the African and Arab group countries, and this points to a potential to

increase intra-group trade within country groups. Such diversion in trade is not evident for the

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Growth rate of the OIC region’s import, CAGR, %, 2008-2016

Cork, wood

Crude rubber

Oils, fats, waxe

Meat

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for animals

Live animals

Miscellaneous p.

Dairy

Vegetables, fruit

Sugars

Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices

Fish

Share of intraregional trade in OIC countries’ agricultual imports, 2016

Oil-seeds

Cotton

Cereals

Wool

Silk

Textile bast fibres

Hides, skins

Beverages, tobacco

Agrifood

Fish

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