Trade data sources: Overview

Today, we will go through the main sources of trade data, which could be used in the trade data analysis.

All information presented today is on the website:

https://ebukin.github.io/dataManipulationPractice/

Content:

• General information
• UN Comtrade
• World Bank
• World Trade Organization
• International Trade Center
• MIT-Harvard Economic Complexity Solutions
• CEPII
• Shiny trade analysis tool
• R package for trade data analysis

General information

Trade classifications (What are those? Why those are different? Where to find them?)

• Harmonized System - HS
• Standard International Trade Classification - SITC
• Broad Economic Categories - BEC

Other products classifications

• FAO Commodity list - FCL
• Central Product Classification - CPC
• List of all UNSD classifications
• UN Methodology for mapping classifications

Areas Classification

• m49 - UNSD classification
• FAOSTAT - Country List
• Other FAO classifications

Asymmetry of information

• CIF vs FOB values
• Data Availability and data sources.

One exercise/example

Select data for:

• Ukraine
• Annual
• Commodities
• HS Code 1001 - Wheat
• 2010-2015
• Trade with the world and some

Analyze trade by regions:

• Use All Agrifood trade according to WTO classification
• Analyse this trade by Country groups (LDC and LIC)

UN Comtrade data

Data availability

• Trade availability visualization tool https://comtrade.un.org/data/da
• API interface

Regular download https://comtrade.un.org/data/

Bulk download

• Web based https://comtrade.un.org/data/bulk
• API https://comtrade.un.org/data/doc/api/bulk/

Restricted access and Token authentication

Data visualization options https://comtrade.un.org/labs/

Metadata https://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradekb/Knowledgebase/13

Country publication notes https://comtrade.un.org/db/mr/daPubNoteDetail.aspx

World Bank

WITS http://wits.worldbank.org/

• Registration / Log in
• Advance query - Trade Data
• Advance query - Trade Data
• User defined groups of commodities and countries
• Tariffs data
• Trade indicators

TCdata360 https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/

World Trade Organization data

• Tariff Analysis Online tool http://tao.wto.org/;
• Tariff Download Facility http://tariffdata.wto.org/.
• Regional Trade Agreement Information System (RTA-IS) http://rtais.wto.org/;
• Trade data time series http://stat.wto.org/;

International Trade Center data [- some overview]https://ebukin.github.io/dataManipulationPractice/00-itc-trademap.html

• Trade Map http://www.trademap.org/Index.aspx
• Market Access Map http://www.macmap.org/Main.aspx
• Standards Map http://www.standardsmap.org
• Investment Map http://www.investmentmap.org
• Trade competitiveness Map http://tradecompetitivenessmap.intracen.org/

CEPII

• Databases: http://www.cepii.fr/.
  • BACI
  • Other data bases.

MIT-Harvard Economic Complexity Solutions

• The Observatory of Economic Complexity

• Atlas of economic complexity

• Globe of economic complexity

Shiny trade analysis tool

Own development:

https://tradeanalysis.shinyapps.io/trade-data-explorer/

R package for trade data analysis

In order to simplify trade data analysis work, an R package was developed to tackle with some basic operations.

tradeAnalysis package could be found here: https://github.com/EBukin/tradeAnalysis-pack

Installation in R is the following:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EBukin/tradeAnalysis-pack")
library(tradeAnalysis)