Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies
To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade
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live animals. For the other product groups, the bilateral trade agreements between the potential
exporters and importers are 10% or lower. Clearly, for these 5 product groups and for a large
number of country pairs, the agreement coverage is strikingly low on average. Table 3.11 shows
that bilateral agreements are not common among the potential OIC exporters and importers of
selected products (live animals, meat, sugars, feeding stuff for animals and oil-seeds) whose
potential for promotion of intra-OIC trade is high.
Table 3. 12 Above Average Tariff Rates for the Potential Matches
Importer Exporter
OIC's intraregional
tariff rate, %
Bilateral tariff
rate, %
Feeding stuff for
animals
Egypt Indonesia
2.33
3.00
Bangladesh Indonesia 4.52
UAE Indonesia 4.61
Saudi Arabia Indonesia 5.00
Yemen Indonesia 5.00
Nigeria Indonesia 8.96
Iran Indonesia 9.50
Pakistan Indonesia 11.09
Turkey Indonesia 11.50
Live animals
Lebanon Malaysia
0.22
5.00
Jordan Malaysia 5.00
Turkey Malaysia 7.80
Bangladesh Malaysia 12.39
Oil-seeds
Iran Turkey
6.14
8.72
Tunisia Turkey 35.99
Sugars
Pakistan Indonesia
10.99
15.34
Togo Indonesia 18.45
Lebanon Indonesia 19.94
Bangladesh Indonesia 22.94
Morocco Indonesia 25.00
Nigeria Indonesia 28.32
Algeria Indonesia 30.00
Benin Indonesia 34.64
Tunisia Indonesia 36.00
Source: ITC Macmap, CEPII BACI, Eurostat RAMON, UN Comtrade, UN Trade Statistics, and authors’
calculations
Observing the fraction of potential country pairs that have a trade agreement is only partially
informing. Therefore, the tariff rates across potential matches for each product division are
compared against the average OIC intra-regional tariff rates. As demonstrated above, live