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The composite index of market access (CIMA) is an indicator used to assess the costs of entering a given market. It is based on the notion of a price ladder that takes into account production costs all the way to final selling prices and reflects the prices received at various levels of the marketing chain as well as the full range of costs incurred in the process of exporting rice from Uruguay to the three selected import markets: Brazil, the EU and Peru. The focus of the study is on the barriers to market access faced by rice exports.