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World Tariff Profiles 2006 A Collaborative
Project of the WTO, ITC, and UNCTAD
Looking for statistics on tariffs? Bound
and applied duties? For WTO Members and
non-Members alike?
This new publication provides a comprehensive
picture of bound and applied nominal tariff
protection for some 150 countries and
territories. The information on each country's
market access situation is presented in the form
of summary tables which facilitate cross-country
comparisons and in country pages with
disaggregations by sectors and duty ranges. In
addition, a section in the country pages
highlights the market access conditions faced in
major export markets. A special effort has
been undertaken by the International Trade Center
(ITC) to convert nearly all of the non-ad valorem
duties into ad valorem equivalents. The
underlying methodological issues relating to this
conversion as well as different aggregation
methods for tariff averages and changes in tariff
averages are discussed in an annex, which also
provides all the technical notes.
June 2007 Price 50 CHF English ISBN
978-92-870-3369-7 Español ISBN
978-92-870-3371-0 Français ISBN
978-92-870-3370-3 A World Trade Organization
Publication.
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Contents

• Summary Tables
• All products, agricultural products,
  non-agricultural products
• Country Pages
• 151 countries/territories
• 3 sections
• Tariff and imports summary and distribution by
  duty ranges
• Tariff and imports by product groups
• Statistics on exports to major trading partners
  and duties faced
• Technical Annexes
• Technical articles
• Sources of data
• Glossary of terms

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Sample Summary Table
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Sample Country Table
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Summary Table Statistics

• Calendar year or start of fiscal year

• Share of Harmonized System (HS) six-digit
  subheadings containing at least one bound tariff
  line.
• Full binding coverage is indicated by 100 without
  further decimals. If some
• tariff lines are unbound but the result still
  rounds to 100 this is reflected
• by maintaining one decimal, i.e. 100.0.

• Simple average of the ad valorem or ad valorem
  equivalent (AVE) HS six-digit duty averages.

• Share of duty-free HS six-digit subheadings in
  the total number of subheadings
• in the product group. Partially duty-free
  subheadings are taken into account on
• a pro rata basis.

• Share of HS six-digit subheadings subject to
  non-ad valorem duties. When only
• part of the HS six-digit subheading is subject to
  non-ad valorem duties the
• percentage share of these tariff lines is used.

• Share of HS six-digit subheadings subject to ad
  valorem duties or AVEs greater
• than 15. When only part of the HS six-digit
  subheading is covered by
• such duties, the calculation is done on a pro
  rata basis.

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Summary Table Statistics

• Share of HS six-digit subheadings subject to ad
  valorem duties or AVEs greater
• than three times the national average. When only
  part of the HS six-digit subheading
• is covered by such duties, the calculation is
  done on a pro rata basis.

• Share of HS six-digit bound subheadings not yet
  implemented in 2006. When only part of the HS
  six-digit subheading is covered by such duties
  the calculation is made on a pro rata basis.

• Maximum tariff line level, ad valorem duty or AVE.

• Number of distinct duty rates. Non-ad valorem
  duties are always treated as distinct
• because AVE calculations would always yield
  distinct AVEs. For this indicator, however,
• duties not provided are not included in the count.

• Standard deviation of tariff line duty rates
  divided by the simple tariff line level average
• of all duty rates. Includes only ad valorem
  duties or AVEs.

• Total number of Most-favored nation (MFN) applied
  tariff lines.

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Part A1. Tariffs and imports summary and duty
ranges

• Simple average of final bound duties excluding
  unbound tariff lines

• Simple average of MFN applied duties

• HS six-digit MFN tariff averages weighted with HS
  six-digit import flows

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Part A1. Tariffs and imports summary and duty
ranges

• For WTO Members, accession year is indicated.

• Share of HS six-digit subheadings containing at
  least one bound tariff line.
• The percentage share is also presented
  separately for non-agricultural (Non-AG) tariff
  lines. Full binding coverage is indicated by 100
  without further decimals. If some tariff lines
  are unbound but the result still rounds to 100
  this is reflected by maintaining one decimal,
  i.e. 100.0.

• Per cent of HS six-digit subheadings in the
  schedule of agricultural concession
• covered by tariff quotas. Partial coverage is
  taken into account on a pro rata basis.

• Per cent of HS six-digit subheadings in the
  schedule of agricultural concessions with
• at least one tariff line subject to Special
  Safeguards (SSG). Partial coverage is taken
• into account on a pro rata basis.

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Part A1. Tariffs and imports summary and duty
ranges
For non-WTO Members there are no statistics
related to bound duties nor to any other
concessions.
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Part A1. Tariffs and imports summary and duty
ranges

• Frequency distribution
• Tariff lines and import values (in ) by sector
• for bound, MFN applied and corresponding Imports.

Duty-free 0 lt 5 5 lt 10 10 lt 15 15 lt
25 25 lt 50 50 lt 100 gt 100 Non ad valorem

• The frequency distributions are based on the pro
  rata shares of tariff line level duties in the
  standard HS six-digit subheadings.

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Part A2. Tariffs and imports by product groups
For product groups by Multilateral trade
negotiations (MTN) Categories
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Part B. Export to major trading partners and
duties faced
For top six major export destinations

• Diversification
• HS two-digit - number of HS chapters with trade
  flows after exclusion of
• 5 of smallest bilateral tariff line trade
  flows.
• HS six-digit - number of HS subheadings with
  trade flows after exclusion
• of 5 of smallest bilateral tariff line trade
  flows.

• Simple and weighted MFN averages based on tariff
  lines with imports.

• Preferential margin
• Trade-weighted average difference between the MFN
  duty and the most
• advantageous preferential duty. Tariff lines
  where either MFN or preferential duties cannot be
  expressed in ad valorem terms have been excluded.

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Technical annexes

• Technical Papers
• Tariff aggregation methods what are the
  implications
• Methodology for the estimation of non-ad valorem
  tariffs
• Data Sources
• Glossary of tariff and trade-related terms

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