72584 v2 World Trade Indicators 2009/10 Ethiopia: Trade-at-a-Glance Table 2008 GDP 2008 GDP 2008 Share 2008 Trade Membership No. of FTAs/ EIAs (millions) per capita in World Trade per capita GATT WTO Goods Services $26,487 $328 0.03% $153 No Accession 1 0 TRADE PERFORMANCE‡ Ethiopia Ranking Decile SSA Low inc TRADE POLICY (TP) (out of 125) 109 9 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE) (out of 125) 46 4 INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) (out of 183) 107 6 TRADE FACILITATION (TF) (out of 155) 123 8 TRADE OUTCOME (TO) (out of 157) 76 5 Outer bound represents best value in latest year ‡ Rankings are based on the representative indicators (in bold) in each group below for the latest year TRADE POLICY (TP) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-08^ Latest Tariff Trade Restrictiveness Index TTRI (MFN applied tariff) 11.8 13.1 13.0 * TTRI (applied tariff including preferences) .. 13.3 13.0 * MFN applied tariff (spl avg) OTRI (Overall TRI, applied tariff incl. prefs.+NTMs) .. 14.7 13.8 * MFN applied tariff - simple avg (%) 28.9 18.8 17.0 17.3 TTRI (MFN) Dispersion (coefficient of variation) 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 Maximum rate (excl. alcohol and tobacco) .. .. 35.0 35.0 Agriculture - simple avg (%) 39.5 21.7 18.9 22.4 MFN applied tariff (wgt avg) Nonagriculture - simple avg (%) 27.3 18.4 16.7 16.6 MFN applied tariff - trade weighted avg (%) 18.2 12.8 12.6 12.6 Applied tariff (wgt avg) Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - trade weighted avg (%) 18.2 12.8 12.6 12.6 Agriculture 31.1 13.6 15.7 16.0 Import duties Nonagriculture 16.0 12.7 12.4 12.3 Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - production weighted avg (%) .. .. .. 0 10 20 30 MFN applied tariff escalation (finished % minus raw %) .. 8.0 5.3 Ethiopia SSA Low inc Agriculture .. .. 8.8 7.8 Nonagriculture .. .. 10.3 8.1 Import duties (% of imports) .. 18.5 .. .. Tariff overhang (MFN bound minus MFN applied rate,%) .. .. .. .. GATS commit. Bound tariff frequency ratio (% of total lines) .. 0.0 0.0 0.0 * index Non-ad valorem tariff frequency ratio (%) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 Non-tariff measures frequency ratio (%) 0.6 .. .. .. 0 40 80 Anti-dumping initiations 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Ethiopia SSA Low inc Overall GATS commitment index (0-100, best) .. .. .. EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-08^ Latest Market Access-TTRI (MA-TTRI, applied tariff incl. prefs.) 2.4 1.8 * MA-TTRI MA-OTRI (applied tariff incl. prefs. and NTMs) 30.9 24.5 * ROW applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - trade weighted avg (%) 0.4 3.0 2.7 2.5 ROW applied(wgt avg) Agriculture 0.4 3.2 2.9 2.9 Nonagriculture 0.8 2.3 1.3 0.2 MFN zero-duty exports (% of total exports) 36.7 69.7 .. .. MFN zero duty exports (%) Exports to FTA / CU partners (% of total exports) 13.7 8.0 5.3 0.0 Ethiopia SSA Low inc Anti-dumping initiations faced 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 1 All numbers normalized to a 0 to 1 scale Real effective exchange rate (% change,+ =apprec.) -4.4 -1.9 7.3 5.7 * All data are as of January 2010 and are drawn from the World Trade Indicators 2009/10 Database. The database, Trade-at-a-Glance Tables, Country Trade Briefs and User Guide, are available at http://www.worldbank.org/wti. ^ Indicators shown are period averages. "Latest" indicates 2008, when not available, 2006 or 2007 (noted by *). EAP: East Asia and Pacific, ECA: Europe and Central Asia, LAC: Latin America and the Caribbean, MNA: Middle East and North Africa, SAS: South Asia, SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa. GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; WTO: World Trade Organization; FTA: free trade agreement; EIA: economic integration arrangement; NTM: nontariff measures; ROW: rest of the world; CU: customs union; ".." indicates missing value. World Trade Indicators 2009/10 Trade-at-a-Glance Tables INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) 2006 2007 2008 2009 Ease of Doing Business (rank out of 183) .. 109 111 107 Ease of Starting a business (rank) .. 109 122 93 Doing 160 Business Enforcing contracts (rank) .. 78 66 57 Rank Closing a business (rank) .. 73 77 77 80 World Governance Indicators (WGI) 2005 2006 2007 2008 Ethiopia Regulatory Quality (-2.5 to +2.5, best) -1.00 -0.87 -0.90 -0.86 SSA Rule of Law (-2.5 to +2.5, best) -0.80 -0.56 -0.53 -0.60 Low inc 0 Control of Corruption (-2.5 to +2.5, best) -0.79 -0.65 -0.70 -0.66 TRADE FACILITATION (TF) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-08^ Latest Logistics Performance Index (LPI, 1 to 5 best) .. .. 2.3 2.4 Efficiency of customs and other border procedures .. .. 2.1 2.1 Quality of transport and IT infrastructure .. .. 1.9 1.8 Logistics Performance Ease of arranging competitively-priced shipments .. .. 2.4 2.8 Index Logistics competence .. .. 2.0 2.1 Ability to track and trace shipments .. .. 1.8 2.9 0 2 4 Timeliness of shipments .. .. 3.7 2.7 Ethiopia SSA Low inc Trading Across Borders (Doing Business, rank out of 183) 155 159 No. of documents required for export .. .. 8 8 200 No. of days required to export .. .. 46 49 160 Cost to export (US$ per container) .. .. 1,735 1,940 120 No. of documents required for import .. .. 8 8 80 No. of days required to import .. .. 42 45 40 Cost to import (US$ per container) .. .. 2,818 2,993 0 Telephones (fixed + mobile) per 100 people 0.3 0.6 2.8 5.1 Trading Across Borders Rank Internet users per 100 people 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.5 Ethiopia SSA Low inc Export credit insured exposures - short term (% of goods export) .. 42.1 42.9 TRADE OUTCOME (TO)# 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-08^ Latest Real growth in trade of goods and services (%) ## 11.0 11.2 9.7 5.9 Real Trade Growth Rate 12 11.2 Exports 9.3 19.9 4.2 3.1 10 11.0 9.7 Imports 11.9 7.0 13.2 7.3 8 8.1 7.6 7.3 7.1 7.0 Goods 3.2 15.1 9.8 5.0 6 6.3 5.9 6.5 5.9 Services 11.8 15.7 3.8 -0.2 4 Nominal growth in trade of goods and services (%) 8.3 15.4 23.0 28.3 2 0 Exports 7.6 13.0 18.8 26.1 1995-99 2000-04 2005-07 2008 Imports 9.2 17.2 24.8 29.1 Ethiopia SSA Trade integration (trade as % of GDP) 30.2 41.8 49.1 42.5 Low inc Goods balance (% GDP) -8.4 -14.4 -19.9 -16.9 Export Composition (2005-08) Food balance (% GDP) 3.4 0.3 1.9 1.9 * Oth com Services balance (% GDP) -0.1 0.3 -1.4 -2.3 Travel , ser, 8.3 7.6 Goods share of total exports (%) 55.3 44.1 47.1 45.8 Services share of total exports (%) 44.7 55.9 53.0 54.6 Goods exports as a share of world goods exports (rank)** 130 137 134 131 Agric, Services exports as share of world services exports (rank)** 103 94 96 91 40.9 Transport , 26.1 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows (% of GDP) .. 0.0 1.8 0.4 Total remittances inflows (% GDP) 0.3 0.6 1.5 1.5 Export product concentration index (0-100, most) 63.4 43.4 40.4 37.8 Minral, Manufac, 0.7 Fuels, 0.0 3.6 Export market concentration index (0-100, most) 32.0 27.4 19.6 14.8 Top 5 export markets (shares) USA (10%), Germany (10%), Saudi Arabia (8%), Netherlands (7%), Djibouti (7%) Top 5 import markets (shares) China, People's Rep. of (19%), Saudi Arabia (18%), India (7%), USA (5%), Italy (4%) Top 5 export products (SITC 3 digit-shares) .. Top 5 import products (SITC 3 digit-shares) 334-Hvy petrol. (23%), 41-Wheat/meslin (5%), 764-Telecom eqpt (5%), 562-Manu. fertilizers (2%), 723-Civil engine plnt (2%) ^ Indicators shown are period averages (except for Trading Across Borders rank: 2005-08 reflects 2008). "Latest" indicates 2008 (for Doing Business, LPI 2009), when not available, 2006 or 2007 (noted by *). # Outcome indicators are from the World Bank Development Data Group, Prospects Group, UNCTAD and COMTRADE. ## In constant 2000 US dollars. ** Rank is based on average annual world share for each period. The sample sizes are 173, 179, 180 and 173 countries, respectively.