Practical Exercise on MARKET ACCESS MAP

TARIFFS AND OTHER MARKET ACCESS REQUIREMENTS

1. DATA AVAILABILITY

1.1. Select a product of interest: __________________________

1.2. Provide an HS code for your product of interest:

4-digit HS: ___________ 6-digit HS: ___________

1.3. Select two target markets for your product:

Target market 1

Target market 2

Got to Market Access Map: www.intracen.org/marketanalysis or straight to www.macmap.org

1.4. Find out the latest available year for different types of information for your two target markets:

Hint: Go to “Support material” and click on “Data availability”. Use the tabs on top of the table to
navigate between different data types. Note down the last year for which data has been uploaded
on Market Access Map.

Latest available year

Type of data
Target market 1: Target market 2:

MFN applied tariffs

Preferential tariffs

Non-tariff measures

Trade Remedies

Tariff rate quotas

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2. IDENTIFY TARIFF RATES IN YOUR TARGET MARKETS

2.1. Identify the tariffs applied by your target markets to your product at HS6 level imported from Viet Nam
and enter the information below:

Hint: Go to “Quick Search” and click on “Find tariffs”. Enter your target market (importing country), your
product at HS6 level (click on the “HS6” tab) and your home country (exporting country).

Target Tariff regime (MFN, Name of the Applied Total ad valorem

Markets trade agreement or non- tariffs(as equivalent tariff, %
reciprocal preference scheme) reported) with
units

MFN
Target
market 1:
Trade agreement

MFN
Target
market 2:
Trade agreement

2.2. Please fill in the table below on preferential market access and tariff advantage:

Hint: For specific tariffs, use the Ad valorem equivalent (AVE) to calculate the Tariff advantage. Please
compare the preferential tariffs (if available) to the MFN rate applicable in the same year.

Target market Is your country benefitting from Tariff advantage:

a preferential market access for
this product in the specific Calculate the difference
target market? Answer Yes or between the MFN rate and the
No preferential rate (if it exists).

Target market 1:

Target market 2:
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3. ANALYZE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND RULES OF ORIGIN

In order to benefit from possible tariff advantages (see previous questions), you have to comply with Rules
of Origin (RoO) and provide the necessary certificates and forms.

3.1. Please fill in the table below for the tariff regimes you found for your target markets.

Hint: Go to “Quick search” and click on “Trade agreements and rules of origin”. Select your target market
“as importer”. Select your home country as partner to narrow the search.

Trade agreement(s) Are the RoOs available? Are the certificates

/forms abailable?

Target market
1:

Target market
2:

3.2. Have a look at the Rules of Origin documents and any certificates available. Try to find information on
the % of product parts that have to originate from your country in order to benefit from tariff advantage.

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4. IDENTIFY OTHER MARKET ACCESS REQUIREMENTS IN MACMAP

4.1. Does Target market 1 apply non-tariff measures to your product?

Hint: Go to “Quick search” and click on “Find non-tariff measures”. Select “Non-tariff measure category” and
enter your target market (importing country). Specify that you are looking for NTMs “applied to imports”.
Select Target market 1 and your HS6 product.

Yes or No

4.2. If yes, what kinds of NTMs did you find?

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4.3. Does Target market 2 apply non-tariff measures to your product?

Yes or No

4.4. If yes, what kinds of NTMs did you find?

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4.5. Analyse the TBT or SPS measures applied by the target markets.

Hint: Click again on the measure(s) above. You will see a list of sub-measures, such as SPS or TBT. To
obtain the details of each sub-measure, drill down through categories by clicking on the name of the
category again. “01.9999” as an end date means that the end data is not specified in the regulation.

Target market 1: Target market 2:

Which countries have

to comply with this
measure

When did the measure

enter in force?

Which authority in the

target market
implemented the
measure?

Is an end date of the

measure known?
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4.6. Does any of the two target markets impose Trade Remedies (Anti-dumping-, Countervailing- or
Safeguard measures)?

Hint: Go to “Quick search” and click on “Find trade remedies”. Select “All (Trade remedies)” in Type of
remedy; select your target market in Importing country and your home country in Exporting country; select
your product of interest.

Yes or No