Trade, International
- AREAER Online -- IMF eLibraryThe Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER) tracks the exchange rate and trade regimes of all members of the International Monetary Fund (currently 188 countries) and three territories (Aruba, Hong Kong SAR, and Curaçao and Sint Maarten—formerly the Netherlands Antilles).
- Comtrade (United Nations)Comtrade provides commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962. Currently, it contains almost 700 millions records.
Now includes Service Trade data. - IMF Direction of Trade StatisticsAlso available in print: Direction of Trade Statistics
IMF Direction of Trade presents tables on the value of imports and exports to their most important trading partners for about 156 countries. The Yearbook provides similar data for about 186 countries, the world, and major areas. - International Trade Statistics YearbookEarlier title: Yearbook of International Trade Statistics. Also available in print: Olin Library, HF 91.U47+
- ITC - International Trade CentreData is free, but users must create an account.
The International Trade Centre has developed five online tools — Trade Map (trade data extends back to 2000), Market Access Map, Investment Map, Trade Competitiveness Map and Standards Map — that enable companies and trade support institutions to identify export/import opportunities and compare market-access requirements (e.g. tariffs, official market regulations and other non-tariff measures, and private voluntary standards such as organic certification or FAIRTRADE). See more at: Overview - WITS: World Integrated Trade SolutionsFor full functionality, users need to register (link in upper right-hand corner). WITS (World Integrated Trade Solution) is a simple yet powerful tool which gives access to merchandise trade and tariff related statistical information.
- World Bank, Trade and International IntegrationTrade and International Integration team of the Development Research Group collects and disseminates data to support its own research activities and the global trade policy agenda. Includes data on trade policy.
- World Trade OrganizationFeatures a Statistics Database with interactive access to up-to-date trade statistics and the annual publication International Trade Statistics.
- WTO Tariff DatabaseSelect country and commodity,.
More Information about Direction of Trade Statistics
CDROM -- Current & Historical Data -- Monthly, Quarterly, Annually Available in the Olin Library. Ask at Olin Library.
The CDROM version provides an interface for browsing the database, selecting series of interest, displaying the selected series in spreadsheet format, and saving the selected series for transfer to other software systems, such as Microsoft Excel. Data are available for approximately 180 countries from 1980 onwards and include estimated data from 1981. Includes the Direction of Trade Statistics Historical Database. This product complements the monthly DOTS database and browser on CD-ROM. The Historical Database contains more than 55,000 time series of annual, quarterly, and monthly trade data for approximately 200 countries from 1948 to 1980. The database can be accessed interactively, via an easy-to-use Window interface for browsing, or directly—via the “flat” file—stored in scientific notation format.