Benchmarking national and sectoral trade performance

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The Country Market Analysis Profiles, or Country Map, are freely available on ITC’s Web site www.intracen.org/countries for around 184 countries and territories. Each profile provides a series of tools to facilitate strategic market research, monitor national and sectoral trade and macro-economic performance and design trade development strategies.

For each country, Country Map offers:

• Trade Performance Index (TPI) – to assess sectoral trade performance. The TPI provides a general profile and ranking for a country’s key export sectors as well as a series of static and dynamic indicators to assess each sector’s international competitiveness.

• National Export Performance and National Import Profile – provide an overview of the export/import performance of countries by looking at the composition of their trade portfolio in terms of the dynamics of international demand and sector diversification.

• Trade & Employment – presents a country’s export portfolio at the industry level and includes dimensions such as wages and related variables.

• Trade Simulation (TradeSim) – an econometric model based a large variety of variables (such as GDP, FDI, tariffs, the presence of conflicts and differences in language) with the main objective of assisting in the identification of markets with significant trade potential. TradeSim also analyses the impact of trade barriers and trade agreements on the external direction of trade of developing countries with their partners.

• Aggregated Trade statistics – present the current structure of imports and exports in values and quantities by sector (3-digit SITC) and country.

• The Reliability of Trade Statistics and Technical Notes on Trade Data – provides a comparison of a selected country’s trade statistics with partner country statistics in order to identify  discrepancies between the two and gauge their reliability. Technical notes provide comments on the way national trade data has been gathered and on its limitations.

Country Map also includes links to Trade Information Sources, Trade Support Institutions, and current ITC projects for the country concerned.

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