New edition of the WTO World Tariff Profiles now available

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) issued today the latest edition (2019) of the World Tariff Profiles, a statistical yearbook made in collaboration with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) with information on both tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by the 164 WTO members, plus other countries and customs territories where such data is available.

The WTO/ITC/UNCTAD publication shows for each country the average tariffs applied on imports. Such data is subsequently disaggregated for different categories of product groups (e.g. animal products, dairy products, fruit, vegetables, plants, coffee, tea, cereals & preparations, oilseeds, fats & oils, sugars and confectionery, beverages & tobacco, cotton, other agricultural products, fish & fish products, minerals & metals, petroleum, etc.).

Other tables provide an analysis of the market access conditions and trade diversification faced by each economy in the 5 major export markets, broken down into agricultural and non-agricultural products, while a specific section of the yearbook covers information on the anti-dumping actions, countervailing duties and safeguard measures applied (with the number of investigations initiated, implemented, withdrawn or revoked).