Trade Statistics by Country/Region - World Integrated Trade Solution
OVERVIEW
The World Bank, alongside the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and partners like the International Trade Center, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), introduced the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS), a platform for accessing trade and tariff data. WITS aggregates key data from sources such as the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade), UNCTAD's TRAINS (Trade Analysis and Information System), the WTO's Integrated Database (IDB) and WTO's Customs Tariff Schedules (CTS) databases, and the Global Preferential Trade Agreements Database by the World Bank and Dartmouth College. These databases provide comprehensive insights into global merchandise trade, tariffs, non-tariff measures, and preferential trade agreements, facilitating the analysis of international trade policies and agreements.
The description above is a paraphrased version of the description on the World Bank’s website.
Available Data File Formats
Excel, PNG, JPEG
Accessibility
This is an open data source for public use.
How to retrieve data by example
Scenario
Imagine you want to assess a country’s five biggest trade partners by considering how much of the country’s total exports are represented by these five trade partners. For example, let’s consider Brazil’s five biggest trade partners and how much of its total exports are represented by them.
Step-by-step
1. Visit the World Integrated Trade Solution website through this link https://wits.worldbank.org/
2. From the menu bar, move the mouse pointer to “Trade Stats” and click on “By Country” from the dropdown menu.
3. After clicking on “By Country”, a new interface would appear. Scroll down to the section called “COUNTRIES” and click on a country of your choice (in this example, click on Brazil).
4. After selecting the preferred country (Brazil), a new interface would appear. Move to the left pane of the window and click on “Exports” highlighted in yellow.
5. After clicking on “Exports”, click on any of these; “Country”, “Year/Range”, or “Trade Flow” to display a dialog box.
6. Afterwards, this is how the interface would appear with the dialog box.
7. Click on “By Indicator” to select the appropriate variables as shown in the dialog box. Afterwards, click on update.
8. After clicking on “update”, this is how the interface would appear.
9. To download the chart, click on the download button enclosed by a yellow color at the top right corner of the left pane.
10. After downloading, this is how the chart would appear.
11. To download the data in excel, click on the download button enclosed by a yellow color at the top right corner of the right pane.
12. After downloading, this is how the data in Excel would appear.
Be sure to consult with the source website on how to correctly cite your data. For this scenario, the citation in APA would look something like this:
World Integrated Trade Solution. (2024). Brazil Exports by country in US$ Thousand 2001-2021. Trade statistics by country/region. WITS: https://wits.worldbank.org/