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WTO: Recommended Data Product

Contents
 

The Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD) is a collection of data and information for WTO members. It primarily consists of tariff schedules, tariff bindings, country notifications, import quantities, applied tariff rates, and other data useful in tariff analysis. Based in Microsoft Access and Excel, AMAD is a publicly available information tool for the analysis of WTO market access issues in agriculture. The database currently contains data for 50 countries, including documentation and examples. AMAD results from a cooperative effort by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; EU Commission, Agriculture Directorate-General; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); the World Bank; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); and USDA Economic Research Service.

Data Included

  • Base and bound Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariffs, including in-quota and over-quota rates
  • Base and bound tariff quota volumes
  • Implementation period for tariff and tariff-rate quota (TRQ) commitments
  • Notified imports under TRQs
  • Indication of Special Safeguards (SSG) application
  • Import volume and value by harmonized system line
  • TRQ country allocations
  • Applied MFN tariffs
  • Supply/utilisation data
  • World reference prices
  • World import unit values
  • Exchange rates
  • Primary product equivalent factors

Data Sources

 

For more information, contact: Anita Regmi

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Updated date: June 14, 2007