WTO | International trade and tariff data

español français

International trade and tariff data

Permission to make digital or hard copies of any information contained in these web pages is granted for personal or classroom use, without fee and without formal request.

Full citation and copyright notice must appear on the first page.

Copies may not be made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage. To republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or fee.

VIDEOS

News back to top

Statistics Database back to top

Interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics (opens in a new window)

Includes links to trade profiles, tariff profiles and services profiles.

International Trade Statistics, 2011 back to top

Annual publication including detailed analysis and tables for 2010 (leading traders, trade by sector and product, regional trade, LDCs, etc.).

Previous editions of ITS: 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Comprehensive tariff data back to top

The bound and applied tariff for all members at the standardized Harmonized System 6-digit subheading level are available for download.

Inter-agency activities back to top

> Inter-agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services
> Inter-agency Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics
> Inter-agency Common Data Set: a joint online database on total merchandise trade provided together with useful documentation
> Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
> Measuring Trade in Services — A training module

> The Millennium Development Goals
Inter-agency website coordinated with ITC and UNCTAD
MDG Goal 8: Market Access Indicators for LDCs

Special events back to top

Global Forum on Trade Statistics, 2-4 February 2011
> News item
> Programme and audio

World Statistics Day, 20 October 2010
> News item
> World Statistics Day website

> “Data Day” — an inter-agency initiative promoted by ITC, UNCTAD, the World Bank and WTO, 18-19 May 2009

Regular statistical reports back to top

Search Documents Online
Documents on regular statistical reports bear the document code S/C/W/* for documents under services and WT/COMTD/W/* and WT/COMTD/LDC/W/* for documents under trade and development (where * takes additional values).
These links open a new window: allow a moment for the results to appear.

> help with downloading these documents

Trade in commercial services
— A review of statistics on trade flows in service
(Document code S/C/W/* and keyword “review of statistics”) > search
By economic grouping
— Participation of developing economies in the global trading system
(Document code WT/COMTD/W/* and keyword “developing economies in the global trading system”) > search
— Market access for products and services of export interest to LDCs
(Document code WT/COMTD/LDC/W/* and keyword “Market Access for Products and Services of Export Interest to Least-Developed Countries”) > search

You can perform more sophisticated searches from the Documents Online search facility by defining multiple search criteria such as document symbol (i.e. code number), notification number, requirement subject, trade coverage, full text search or document date.

Staff working papers back to top

ERSD-2010-12	Globalization and trade flows: what you see is not what you get! Andreas Maurer and Christophe Degain Abstract Download (pdf format, 29 pages, 443KB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2010-08	International Supply Chains and Trade Elasticity in Times of Global Crisis Hubert Escaith, Nannette Lindenberg and Sébastien Miroudot Abstract Download (pdf format, 42 pages, 515KB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2009-14	Market Shares in the Post-Uruguay Round Era: A Closer Look Using Shift-Share Analysis Ninez Piezas-Jerbi and Coleman Nee Abstract Download (pdf format, 85 pages, 1.33MB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2009-13	Mapping the Tariff Waters Antonia Diakantoni and Hubert Escaith Abstract Download (pdf format, 31 pages, 463KB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2009-06	International Trade and Real Transmission Channels of Financial Shocks in Globalized Production Networks Hubert Escaith and Fabien Gonguet Abstract Download (pdf format, 33 pages, 334KB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2008-05	Measuring GATS Mode 4 Trade Flows Joscelyn Magdeleine and Andreas Maurer Abstract Download (pdf format, 20 pages, 114KB, opens in a new window)
ERSD-2008-02	The harmonized system — Amendments and their impact on WTO Members’ schedules Dayong Yu Abstract Download (pdf format, 25 pages, 184KB, opens in a new window)

Links back to top

> National statistical offices (pdf format, 12 pages, 154KB; opens in a new window)
> Other national sources (pdf format, 18 pages, 307KB; opens in a new window)
> International Organizations (pdf format, 3 pages, 62KB; opens in a new window)
> Other links to statistics and economics information

Feedback back to top