The efforts exerted at the level of the OIC have been conclusive since intra-OIC, which accounted for 10% only of global trade of the OIC countries in 2000 reached for the first time 14.50% in 2004 i.e. the amount of 103 billion US $ . Despite, the considerable efforts made at the level of the OIC and Member States to promote intra-OIC trade and to attempt to remove impediments, several obstacles still exist, namely,

Market access problems: tariff, para tariff and often non tariff barriers; Impediments et the level of logistics: infrastructures, transports, support services to international trade, which are either weak or insufficient;   The existence of a non diversified exportable supply, which does not meet international market norms and standards;   Lack of information on markets and business opportunities, in spite of the efforts made by ICDT in this field.;   Limited meeting opportunities between businessmen and inadequate promotion of national productions at the level of the other OIC markets;   The complexity of administrative procedures related to foreign trade, such as those of customs clearing, banking, ports, etc...;   Lack of managerial staff and specialised technicians in international trade; Inadequate and inappropriate financing instruments, particularly for the benefit of the SME and SMI.

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About the Author

Name	:	RACHDI
First Name	:	ALLAL
Date of Birth	:	17/06/1951
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Grande Ecole of Public Administration (Training Future Governement Officials) (1973)    Faculty of Law – Political sciences (1975)  Certificate of trade policy from GATT (Geneva 1977).    - Senior civil servant since 1978 at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Kingdom of Morocco. Mr RACHDI participated in the working out and implementation of Structural Adjustment programmes, he also took part in the bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations particularly in the negotiations for the accession of Morocco to the GATT, cooperation and association agreements of Morocco with the European Union, the Uruguay Round negotiations as well as the negotiations of several free trade agreements. - Director of the Foreign Trade Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Trade from 1994 to 2000, he also assumed the function of coordinator at the General secretariat of the same Ministry . - Chairman of the National Imports Consultative Commission (1992-2000). - Chairman of the National Commission of Foreign Trade Facilitation (1986-2000) - Administrator at the Common Fund for Commodities ( Amsterdam) (1998-2000) - Administrator at the Moroccan Exports Association - Member of the joint committee of the Private /Public sector - Director General of the Islamic Centre for Development of Trade since July 2000.