Preferential Trade Agreements and Trade Liberalization Efforts in the OIC Member States
With Special Emphasis on the TPS-OIC
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Figure 15: Simple Average MFN Tariff Rates OIC Countries with Relatively High, Medium and
Low tariff, 2012 or Most Recent Year available (%)
Source: WTO tariff profiles /No data is available for Algeria, Comoros, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya,
Mauritania, Palestine, Somalia, Syria and Turkmenistan
For 15 countries there was minimal change in simple average MFN tariff level (up to 0.5 percentage
points either way). Finally, three countries saw their tariffs increasing by more than 1 percentage
point during this period: Uzbekistan, Uganda and Kuwait.