the landscape of these high applied tariffs levels has changed since trends in high applied tariff levels defined as those either or times or higher above the world agrofood average simple average in any given year indicate that there has been an increase in the number of bilateral flows that are attracting high tariffs figure for example in around bilateral trade flows at the hs digit level attracted applied duties that were at least ten times higher than the world average tariff applied to agrofood trade by this had doubled to around bilateral trade flows a similar pattern exists for tariffs times the agrofood average in any given year