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Reviewing Agricultural Trade Policies

To Promote Intra-OIC Agricultural Trade

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Table 4. 13 NTM Types and NTM Affected Products, Turkey

Sector

NTM Type Count

Share %

NTM affected product - count

Animal

1 type

7.7

26

Animal

2 types

18.8

63

Animal

3+ types

34.2

115

Animal

No NTMs

39.3

132

Vegetable

1 type

30.7

108

Vegetable

2 types

17.1

60

Vegetable

3+ types

44.9

158

Vegetable

No NTMs

7.4

26

Food Products

1 type

25.1

53

Food Products

2 types

37.9

80

Food Products

3+ types

24.2

51

Food Products

No NTMs

12.8

27

Hides and Skins

1 type

11.6

8

Hides and Skins

2 types

46.4

32

Hides and Skins

3+ types

40.6

28

Hides and Skins

No NTMs

1.5

1

Wood

1 type

11.1

26

Wood

2 types

1.3

3

Wood

3+ types

31.1

73

Wood

No NTMs

56.6

133

Source: phytosanitary

Trade agreements and cooperation

Turkey is among the OIC countries that have submitted their updated list of concessions for the

Trade Preferential System within the OIC (TPS-OIC)

Turkey has FTAs currently “in force” with 8 OIC member countries. These are Palestine (since

2005), Tunisia (since 2005), Morocco (since 2006), Syria (since 2007), Egypt (since 2007),

Albania (since 2008), Jordan (since 2011) and Malaysia (since 2017). Other than the FTA with

Egypt, all the other agreements have been notified under the GATT Art. XXIV. These FTAs largely

cover agri-food and fish products, and agricultural raw materials are included only in the FTA

with Malaysia. The FTA with Palestine includes only the “date” (HS: 0804.10).

Turkey also has Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs) with Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, and Tunisia

under the Protocol on Trade Negotiations (PTN) since 1973 and with Iran and Pakistan under

the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) since 1992.

Turkey is also a member of the Mediterranean Agriculture Market Information Network (MED-

AMIN) launched in February 2014. Other OIC members are Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon,

Morocco, and Tunisia. The Non-OIC countries of MED-AMIN are France, Greece, Italy, Malta,

Portugal, and Spain.