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This document describes various data problems and procedures for the treatment of merchandise trade. Preparation of bilateral merchandise trade for the GTAP 7 Data Base involves different approaches for confronting multiple challenges. Although wide discrepancies in reported bilateral trade flows

This paper analyses the technological intensity of industries classi-fied by technology levels (low-technology, medium-low-technology, medium-high-technology and high-technology) and patterns in Slove-nian merchandise trade developments between and within industries in the post-independence years

In this paper we present a descriptive analysis of firm-level merchandise trade, focussing on the role of entrepreneurial exporting behaviour. We document two aspects of the dynamics of trade the contribution of novel export activity to aggregate trade growth and, conversely, the substantial exit

HIS paper is intended to be an in-depth empirical analysis of the salient changes that have taken place in the commodity and geographic structure of North American merchandise trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the three decades spanning 1960-1990. We will highlight the important changes

After statistics on population, statistics on foreign trade are among the old-est sets of statistics continuously compiled by the United States government. The Treasury Department first compiled and published estimates of the bal-ance of trade as far back as 1790. Statistics compiled from actual

International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) is a domain of official economic statistics with great tradition. The conventional data source of IMTS has been Customs documents, thus the basic recording principle the cross-border physical movement of goods. As long as national economies covered

seemingly small fraction of U.S. GDP. This is not surprising in view of the fact that large economies trade less with others, and more internally. But the modest share of trade in total national income hides the fact that merchandise trade as a share of merchandise value-added is quite high for the U

China’s forthcoming accession to the WTO will be a turning point for China, and for the rest of the world. It involves reforms across a wide range of sectors in China, both in directly trade-related sectors and behind the border. The implications of these reforms are greatly influenced

Abstract: This paper summarizes the key findings from simulating the full removal of all remaining trade barriers and domestic support using the World Bank’s global trade model, known as LINKAGE. In its default configuration, the Linkage model is dynamic recursive with the measured gains assessed