Countries by Binding coverage, manufactured products (%)
Thirty-three countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine, achieve a binding coverage rate of 100% for manufactured products, meaning every product line in their schedules carries an enforceable bound tariff rate. At the other end, 100 countries record 0%, indicating no bound rates on manufactured product lines are captured in this dataset. The gap between these extremes spans the full 0-to-100 percentage point range across 161 countries.
Ranking 2022
Values shown in %.
Analysis
This metric measures the share of manufactured product lines for which a country has an agreed, enforceable bound tariff rate under WTO schedules of concessions. Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate; bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country's schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Manufactured products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 5-8 excluding division 68. The dataset covers 161 countries sourced from the World Bank World Development Indicators (TM.TAX.MANF.BC.ZS), with data year 2022. All datapoints are classified as official quality, no extreme outliers were flagged, and the average year-over-year change of 9.2% indicates reasonable stability.
At the top of the ranking, 33 countries share Rank 1 with a value of 100%, meaning all manufactured product lines carry a bound rate. This group spans multiple regions and income levels, including Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Georgia, Jordan, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Peru, Russia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and Venezuela, among others. Five countries share Rank 34 with values of 99.97%, including Antigua and Barbuda, Djibouti, Grenada, Kuwait, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The Kyrgyz Republic ranks 39th at 99.95%, followed by Egypt at Rank 40 with 99.44%.
The middle of the ranking shows a steep decline in binding coverage. Viet Nam sits at Rank 41 with 98.68%, while Dominica falls to 95.77% at Rank 42 and Afghanistan records 95.60% at Rank 43. Coverage drops sharply further down: Israel ranks 47th at 71.45%, Singapore ranks 48th at 67.43%, and the Philippines ranks 49th at 61.38%. Tunisia ranks 50th at 56.70% and Fiji 51st at 50.15%. Below that, figures fall rapidly: Mauritania ranks 52nd at 34.31%, Sri Lanka 53rd at 29.13%, and Cuba 55th at 23.55%. At the bottom of the non-zero group, Myanmar ranks 59th at 5.02%, Bangladesh 60th at 4.52%, and Mozambique 61st at 1.53%. Then 100 countries, including the United States, China, Germany, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom, all share Rank 62 with a value of 0%.
A key limitation of this metric is that a reported value of 0% does not necessarily mean a country has no bound tariff commitments; it may reflect differences in how schedules are structured, reported, or matched to the SITC classification used here. The concentration of major trading economies, including the US, EU member states, Japan, China, and South Korea, at 0% is counterintuitive and likely reflects a data or classification issue rather than an absence of WTO bindings. Additionally, not all 161 countries have 2022 data; 25 countries rely on observations from outside the most recent year. The metric covers only manufactured goods under the specified SITC classification and excludes division 68, so it does not represent a country's overall tariff binding profile.
Methodology
This metric is drawn from the World Bank World Development Indicators, indicator code TM.TAX.MANF.BC.ZS, with data year 2022. The unit is percentage. As defined in the source note: 'Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country's schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Manufactured products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 5-8 excluding division 68.' The dataset covers 161 countries, meeting the 80-country coverage threshold. Of these, 136 out of 161 countries (84.5%) have data from 2022, and 157 out of 161 (97.5%) have data from the last seven years. All 100% of datapoints are classified as official quality. No extreme outliers were identified using a 3-sigma threshold. The average year-over-year change is 9.2%, well below the 50% volatility threshold. The value range spans from 0.00% to 100.00%, a spread of 999.0%. Rankings with tied values share the same rank number, with 33 countries sharing Rank 1 at 100% and 100 countries sharing Rank 62 at 0%.