Preferential Trade Agreements and Trade Liberalization Efforts in the OIC Member States
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There are no clear patterns in commodity concentration of intra-GCC trade as proxied by trade
concentration index (Figure 49), with trade concentration typically being both quite high and
also showing a high degree of fluctuation.
Figure 42: Share of Intra-FTA Trade for GCC as Share of Total Trade
Calculations based Comtrade data
Figure 43: Share of GCC in Bahrain’s Total Trade
Calculations based Comtrade data