Trade profile of South Asian LDCs

Trade profile of South Asian LDCs, 2008
LDC	WTO membership	Final bound tariff	Avg. applied tariff	Share in world exports		Share in world  imports
				Goods	Services	Goods	Services
Afghanistan	Process of accession	-	5.6	0	-	0.02	-
Bangladesh	Founding member	169.2	14.4	0.1	0.02	0.14	0.1
Bhutan	Process of accession	-	21.9	0	0	0	0
Maldives	Founding member	36.9	20.4	0	0.02	0.01	0.01
Nepal	Acceded in 2004	26	12.7	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02

Source: World Trade Profiles, WTO (2009)

Despite having low average tariffs and liberal trade regimes, South Asian LDCs’ shares in global trade remain very low. Maldives graduated from the LDC club in 2010.