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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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Following the explanations summarized above, 5 product divisions are identified which have a

high growth rate and low level of intra-regional integration:

Sugars, sugar preparations and honey (abbreviated to “sugars”)

Meat and meat preparations (abbreviated to “meat”)

Feeding stuff for animals

Oilseeds and oleaginous fruit (abbreviated to “oilseeds”)

Live animals

Table 3. 9 Criterion for Taking Place in the List of Potential Importer Countries

Criteria in short

Criteria in detail

Be an importer in 2008

Country’s total import volume in the specific product division for

the year 2008 ≥ 1000 $

Be an importer in 2016

Country’s total import volume in the specific product division for

the year 2016 ≥ 1000 $

Have a high import growth

rate (2008-2016)

Country’s import growth rate in the specific product division ≥

OIC’s import growth rate in general agricultural products (4.3%)

Have a low intraregional

integration while importing

in 2016

Share of OIC in the import of the country in the specific product

division ≤ Share of intraregional trade in OIC countries’ total

agricultural imports (24.2%)

Source: Authors.

Table 3. 10 Criterion for Taking Place in the List of Potential Exporter Countries

Criteria in short

Criteria in detail

Be a substantial exporter in

2016

Country’s total export volume in the specific product division for

the year 2016 ≥ One in 10 thousand of total exports in the

relevant product division worldwide

Have a low intraregional

integration while exporting

in 2016

Share of OIC in the export of the country in the specific product

division ≤ Share of intraregional trade in OIC countries’ total

agricultural imports (24.2%)

Source: Authors.

Table 3.8 summarizes the numerical interpretation of Figure 3.13 above. The analysis

demonstrates that the share of OIC group in total OIC imports of feeding stuff for animals is

lowest (8.1%). The other four products (sugars, meat, oilseeds and live animals) have OIC import

shares between 8.8% to 20.7%, all of which are lower than the average agricultural product

imports share of the OIC group in general (24.2%). Moreover, the five products have positive

and higher than average growth rates in OIC agricultural imports, thus creating a sound

potential for promotion of intra-OIC trade. This means that the OIC countries are already

importing these products for a variety of reasons since the import growth rates are high.

However, still for a variety of reasons, the OIC group countries do not have import of these

products from other exporting OIC group countries. There is a need to further explore the