Trade statistics for international business development 

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Trade Map (www.trademap.org) provides on-line access to the world’s largest trade database and presents indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets, and the role of competitors from both the product and country perspective.

Trade Map operates in a web-based interactive environment and covers the trade flows (values, quantities, trends, market share, and unit values, both in graphic and tabular format) of over 220 countries and territories and 5,300 products defined at the 2, 4 or 6-digit level of the Harmonized System (HS revision 1).

The tool is based on COMTRADE, the world’s largest trade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, and on market access data from UNCTAD, WTO and national sources.

Trade Map features include:

• Analysis of present export markets: Examine the profile and dynamics of export markets for any product, assess the value, size and concentration of exports and highlight countries where market share has increased.

• Pre-selection of priority markets: View the world’s major importing countries, illustrate the extent of import concentration and in which countries demand has increased over the past five years.

• Overview of competitors in global and specific markets: Identify the leading exporting countries for a given product, highlight a country’s position in world exports or in the imports of partner and neighbouring countries.

• Review of opportunities for product diversification in a specific market: Make a comparative assessment of import demand for related products in an export market, identify imports of similar products and possible synergies.

• Identification of existing and potential bilateral trade with any partner country: Identify product-specific opportunities by comparing actual bilateral trade, the total import demand of partner countries and the overall export supply capacity of the home country.

• Information on tariffs barriers: View information on a country’s instruments of trade control (ad-valorem and specific tariffs, MFN tariffs, tariff quotas).

Trade Map is available on a subscription basis and can be customized for trade support institutions through a password-protected web site, which allows the dissemination of access to third-party users. Current partners. Interested parties may also apply for a free trial password to Trade Map in order to assess the application. Visit http://www.trademap.org/freetrial.php to apply for a free trial password.  

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