The World Trade Organization (WTO) has issued the latest editions of its annual statistical publications: World Trade Statistical Review, Trade Profiles and World Tariff Profiles.
Available at www.wto.org, the Review examines the latest trends in global trade, with an in-depth analysis of what is being traded in goods and services and a guide to the leading players.
It also provides data on trade-restrictive and trade-facilitating measures implemented by WTO members, commitments to the Aid for Trade initiative, and implementation of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement.
It also looks into the latest developments in trade finance.
Trade Profiles 2018, which can be found at www.wto.org, provides a series of key indicators on merchandise trade and trade in commercial services for 197 economies, highlighting the breakdown of exports and imports for each one as well as their main trading partners.
The aim is to provide a concise overview of global trade.
Finally, World Tariff Profiles, which is a joint publication of the WTO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC), provides comprehensive information on the tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by over 170 countries and customs territories.
It provides (available at www.wto.org) an analysis of how least developed countries (LDCs) make use of preferential tariffs offered by trading partners for their exports and offers statistics on non-tariff measures by country and by product group.
