Data Sources
The United Nation Statistical Division
UN COMTRADE
The United Nation Statistical Division (UNSD) Commodity Trade (COMTRADE) Data Base that contains Exports and Imports by Commodity and Partner Country. Values are recorded in US Dollars along with a variety of quantity measures. The Data Base includes information for over 130 countries, some of which have been reporting these types of statistics to the United Nations since 1962.The data are recorded according to six internationally recognized trade and tariff classifications.
COMTRADE UNCTAD
UNCTAD-TRAINS
TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) provides online access to indicators of Trade Control Measures (Tariff, Para-tariff and Non-tariff measures), as well as imports by suppliers at each Harmonized System 6-digit level for over 150 countries. It also provides country notes of trade regimes for some 40 developing countries, describing market access conditions according to the UNCTAD Coding System of Trade Control Measures.
UNCTAD-TRAINS Commodity Price Statistics on-line
Commodity Price Statistics provide monthly free-market prices and price indices starting in January 1960 for selected commodities that concern commodity-dependant countries. Price indices are provided for commodity groups (including food, tropical beverages, vegetable oilseeds and oils, agricultural raw materials, minerals, ores and metals), and for all groups in current dollars and SDRs.
Commodity Price Statistics
The IMF
Direction of Trade Statistics (the DOT)
Direction of Trade Statistics provides critical data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. It reports total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level.
The WTO-IDB&CTS
The International Trade Centre (ITC)
Trade Map
Trade Map - www.trademap.org - is an on-line database on trade flows in goods and services and tariff measures. This portal operates in a web-based interactive environment. The pages list values, quantities, trends,market share, and unit values, both in graphic and tabular format. It covers trade flows over the last five years for over 220 countries and territories, 41 country groups and 5,300 products defined at the 2, 4 or 6-digit level of the Harmonized System (HS revision 1) and at the tariff line level, representing about 95% of world trade.
Trade Map Market Access Map
Market Access Map - www.macmap.org - is a web portal containing information on market access measures applied by over 170 importing countries to the products exported by more than 200 countries and territories. It provides information on ad valorem and specific tariffs, ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) of specific tariffs, tariff quotas, anti-dumping duties and other trade remedies, and certificates and rules of origin.
Market Access Map Product Map
Product Map -www.p-maps.org - is a web portal presenting business information and intelligence for the 72 largest sectors. It includes market studies, trade data, price indicators (such as the Market News Service), links to other sources of information and over 20,000 companies and organizations.
Product Map Investment Map
Investment Map - www.investmentmap.org - an interactive tool that combines statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI), international trade and market access into a single portal, Investment Map allows analyses by country, partner and industry. It also includes information on the location, sales, employment and parent company for more than 70,000 foreign affiliates located in developing countries and economies in transition.
Investment Map
The World Bank
The World Integrated Trade Solution
The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) is software developed by the World Bank, in close collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). WITS gives access to the major trade and tariffs data compilations :
-The COMTRADE database maintained by the UNSD;
-The TRAINS maintained by the UNCTAD;
-The IDB and CTS databases maintained by the WTO.
WITS is a data consultation and extraction software with simulation capabilities.WITS is a free software. However, access to databases themselves can be fee-charging or limited depending on your status.
The World Bank-WITS
The WTO
IDB-CTS Internet Analysis Facility (IAF)
The IAF allows you to access the IDB and CTS on-line, select markets and products and compile reports for browsing on-line. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Integrated Data Base (IDB) that contain Imports by Commodity and Partner Country and MFN Applied Tariffs for over 80 countries at the most detailed commodity level of the national tariffs; and, the Consolidated Tariff Schedule Data Base (CTS) that contains WTO Bound Tariffs, Initial Negotiating Rights (INR) and other indicators. The CTS is the official source for bound tariffs which are the concessions made by countries during a negotiation (e.g., the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations). The data are recorded according to two internationally recognized trade and tariff classifications. The WTO-IDB&CTS
