Technical Barriers to Trade Database (World Bank)

Database on technical barriers to trade and standards, based on a survey of 689 firms in 17 developing countries, which includes information on both mandatory technical regulations, as well as the use of voluntary standards. The data also include firms' experiences with product testing and their responses to questions regarding mutual recognition agreements.

 

Trade and Import Barriers by Country & Year (Ng 2000)

• Trends in average applied tariff rates

• Average MFN applied tariffs and bound rates by major sectors

• Tariff escalation

• Frequency coverage ratio of non-tariff barriers

• Non-tariff barrier frequency coverage ratio by product

• Agricultural domestic support (AMS) and export subsidies

• Initiations of antidumping investigations by country group

• Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and their shares of GDP & exports

• Shares of total trade, exports & imports in GDP

• World market shares in exports of all goods, agricultures & manufacturing

• Exports of goods and export shares in agricultures & industrial goods

• Imports of goods and import shares in agricultures & industrial goods

 

Trade Production and Protection Database (Nicita & Olarreaga 2006)

This database merges trade flows, production and trade protection data available from different sources into a common classification: the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), Revision 2. The database potentially covers 100 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2004.

 

UN Comtrade Database (UN)

Commodity exports, re-exports and imports by country/year/value/weight for all countries.

 

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics (UNCTAD)

• International merchandise trade

• Trade and commodity price indices

• Structure of international trade by region

• Structure of international trade by product

• International trade in services

• International finance

• Indicators of development

 

U.S. Food and Drug Administration import refusal database (US FDA)

The import refusal report (IRR) reports on imports refused entry to the U.S. The data are available by country and by product based on the industry code which is the first two characters of FDA's product code.

 

U.S. Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb (USITC)

Requires (free) registration. Contains data on:

• U.S. imports for consumption, customs value by month

• U.S. domestic exports, FAS value by month

 

U.S. TradeStats Express (US Department of Commerce)

• U.S. merchandise exports, imports, trade balances

• U.S. state and regional exports of merchandise

 

WTO Trade Database (WTO)

Data on international trade in merchandise and commercial services by country/region and year.