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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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for which the share of OIC as destination for the product has a larger percentage than the share

of OIC as destination for the country's overall agricultural exports. Table F.12 demonstrates that

the share of the OIC countries as export destination for the top three export products is generally

lower than the share of OIC countries as export destination of the agricultural products except

for exports originating from Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, S. Arabia, Senegal and

Somalia, an indication that OIC is not a major export market of the top export products for most

of the OIC countries.

Table 3. 13 OIC Countries with High Export Shares but Facing High Tariff Rates in OIC

Country

Products for which OIC has a large share in the country’s agricultural

imports but the tariffs implemented by the OIC countries are high

Afghanistan

Grapes, fresh

Apples, fresh

Albania

Spices (excl. pepper/pimento/headings 075.21 - 075.28); mixtures of two/more

of the products of different headings of group 075

Algeria

Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter

Azerbaijan

Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter

Brunei Darussalam

Pineapple juice

Cameroon

Wood of non-coniferous species specified in heading 247.5, sawn/chipped

lengthwise, sliced/peeled, whether/not planed, sanded/end-jointed, of a

thickness exceeding 6 mm

Chad

Sesame (Sesamum) seeds

Comoros

Spices (excl. pepper/pimento/headings 075.21 - 075.28); mixtures of two/more

of the products of different headings of group 075

Gabon

Woods in the rough/roughly squared, n.e.s.

Gambia

Milk & cream, not concentrated/sweetened, of a fat content, by weight,

exceeding 1% but not > 6%

Linseed oil, refined, & its fractions

Other sauces & preparations therefor; mixed condiments & mixed seasonings

Palestine

Dates, fresh/dried

Guyana

Fruits/edible parts of plants, prepared/preserved, n.e.s.

Live animals, n.e.s.

Indonesia

Palm oil, refined, & its fractions

Iran

Grapes, dried (e.g., raisins)

Kazakhstan

Other wheat (including spelt) & meslin, unmilled

Kyrgyzstan

Beans, other than broad beans & horse beans, dried, shelled, whether/not

skinned/split

Lebanon

Other beet/cane sugar in solid form, other than flavoured/coloured matter

Malaysia

Palm oil, refined, & its fractions

Vegetable fats & oils & their fractions, partly/wholly hydrogenate

Mauritania

Salmonidae, frozen (excluding livers & roes)

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

calculation Note: The share of OIC as destination for the country's export of the product is greater than

the share of OIC as destination for the country's agricultural exports AND the weighted average tariff

rates implemented by OIC members to the country's export of the product is greater than the weighted

average tariff rates implemented by OIC members to the country's agricultural exports

The reason that the OIC market is not a preferred export destination for most of the OIC

countries is partially due to high tariff protection of the OIC member countries, particularly for

the agricultural exports. For instance, among the 57 OIC countries, only Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait,

Libya, Maldives, Qatar, Uzbekistan and Yemen are imposed by lower weighted average tariff

rates for their top 5 agricultural export products, thus facing with low protection against their

exports in the OIC market. All other countries have at least one top export product with tariff

rates implemented by the OIC countries that are higher than the average intra-OIC agricultural