Database Specific
Database Specific Abstract AbstractSTAN Bilateral Trade Database by Industry and End-use category (BTDIxE) provides values of imports and exports of goods broken down by industrial sectors and by end-use categories. BTDIxE was designed to extend the BTD database which provided bilateral trade in goods by industry only. BTDIxE allows, for example, insights into the patterns of trade in intermediate goods between countries to track global production networks and supply chains, and it helps to address policy issues such as trade in value added and trade in tasks.
In this Revision 1 of the database, estimates of imports and exports of goods are provided for the time-period 1990-2011 for all reporters but three (subject to the availability of underlying product-based annual trade statistics as of mid-September 2012).
The list of reporters covers all OECD Member Countries and 30 non member economies, including the BRIICS (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa). It should be noted that underlying series for OECD countries are from OECD International Trade by Commodity Statistics., while data for non OECD economies are from UNSD database COMTRADE.
The list of partners covers all 34 OECD countries, 30 non member economies, the Rest of the World, the partner Unspecified, and Total World.
Trade flows are divided into 46 economic activities and 9 categories including capital goods, intermediate goods and household consumption.
See OECD: Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper, No. 2011/06 for a full description of BTDIxE.
Note that documentation briefly describes methods for modifying certain bilateral flows to take account of 're-exports' such as reported to and from China via Hong-Kong. These have not yet been implemented in BTDIxE as we are still researching optimal methods for making such adjustments.
Data Characteristics Data Characteristics Contact person Contact personUsers are encouraged to send their comments, questions, or to signal any apparent errors regarding this database to stan.contact@oecd.org mentioning BTDIxE in the title of their message.
Date last updated Date last updatedNovember 20, 2012
Other data characteristics Other data characteristicsUsers should bear in mind that in BTDIxE, mirror flows often do not match between two countries, i.e. the export values from country A to country B (reported by country A) may well not agree with the import values to country B from country A (reported by country B). Although this issue exists for almost all trade flows, the differences observed may be relatively small. In a few cases however, the discrepancy can be significant for some particular reporter-partner pairs. More discussion about mirror statistics is available in the OECD Statistics Brief, October 2001.
Country data can be downloaded in the form of flat files from the OECD.STAT export menu: go to "Export" and "Ready-Made Files".
Unit of measure used Unit of measure usedValues of exports and imports of goods are provided in thousands of current US dollars.
End-use shares are expressed in percentage of total category for each industry.
STAN Bilateral Trade Database by Industry and End-use category (BTDIxE) provides values of imports and exports of goods broken down by industrial sectors and by end-use categories. BTDIxE was designed to extend the BTD database which provided bilateral trade in goods by industry only. BTDIxE allows, for example, insights into the patterns of trade in intermediate goods between countries to track global production networks and supply chains, and it helps to address policy issues such as trade in value added and trade in tasks. <br> <br> In this Revision 1 of the database, estimates of imports and exports of goods are provided for the time-period 1990-2011 for all reporters but three (subject to the availability of underlying product-based annual trade statistics as of mid-September 2012). <br>The list of reporters covers all OECD Member Countries and 30 non member economies, including the BRIICS (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa). It should be noted that underlying series for OECD countries are from OECD International Trade by Commodity Statistics., while data for non OECD economies are from UNSD database COMTRADE. <br> The list of partners covers all 34 OECD countries, 30 non member economies, the Rest of the World, the partner Unspecified, and Total World. <br> Trade flows are divided into 46 economic activities and 9 categories including capital goods, intermediate goods and household consumption. <br> <br> See OECD: Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper, No. 2011/06 for a full description of BTDIxE. <br> <br> Note that documentation briefly describes methods for modifying certain bilateral flows to take account of 're-exports' such as reported to and from China via Hong-Kong. These have not yet been implemented in BTDIxE as we are still researching optimal methods for making such adjustments.
Values of exports and imports of goods are provided in thousands of current US dollars. <br> <br> End-use shares are expressed in percentage of total category for each industry.
November 20, 2012
Users are encouraged to send their comments, questions, or to signal any apparent errors regarding this database to stan.contact@oecd.org mentioning BTDIxE in the title of their message.
Users should bear in mind that in BTDIxE, mirror flows often do not match between two countries, i.e. the export values from country A to country B (reported by country A) may well not agree with the import values to country B from country A (reported by country B). Although this issue exists for almost all trade flows, the differences observed may be relatively small. In a few cases however, the discrepancy can be significant for some particular reporter-partner pairs. More discussion about mirror statistics is available in the OECD Statistics Brief, October 2001. <br> <br> Country data can be downloaded in the form of flat files from the OECD.STAT export menu: go to "Export" and "Ready-Made Files".