This dataset is associated with the journal article titled The AfCFTA tariff offers: Current state and first revelations about members' stances towards openness and protectionism and the JRC Technical Report JRC135509 titled "The AfCFTA Tariff Offers: Current State and First Insights".

The journal article is substantially updated and extended in comparison to the JRC report, including more countries and newer data. Please check the reports to see the specific differences.

Links

For the dataset's meta-data, please click here.

For details on the methodology, please refer to the associated publications:

• JRC Technical Report: "The AfCFTA Tariff Offers: Current State and First Insights".
• Journal article: "The AfCFTA tariff offers: Current state and first revelations about members' stances towards openness and protectionism"

For a bulk download in long format, please use these links:

• JRC report data
• Journal article data

Definitions

The dataset comprises three schedules categorising each of the HS 2017 6-digit product codes as:

• A: non-sensitive
• B: sensitive
• C: excluded

The three schedules are:

• The "offer" schedule is derived from the officially published offers where "none" indicates missing categorisations.
• The "repaired offer" amends the "offer" by categorising the missing codes such that the tariff revenue raised is maximised.
• The "maximum" schedule is constructed from scratch by categorising all codes such that the tariff revenue raised is maximised.

The importers are: