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# _<u>Stat-USA</u>_

Comprises GLOBUS & NTDB, The International Trade Library, and State of the Nation. Produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the U.S. Trade Opportunities Program and U.S. Department of Agriculture. It also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations and the Commerce Business Daily leads.

NTDB provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research Reports, and Best Market reports. It also provides U.S. import and export statistics and other information. The International Trade Library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are keyword and full-text searchable.

State of the Nation provides U.S. domestic financial and economic information from throughout the U.S. federal government and other related entities.

# _<u>WITS (World Integrated Trade Solution)</u>_

Commodities trade database designed by the World Bank. Contains trade statistics from the COMTRADE database made available by the United Nations Statistics Division. WITS also contains tariff rates and non-tariff barriers and provides import and export data for 110 countries. For many of the countries, data can go back to 1962 and may be available up to the current year. Annual international trade statistics are detailed by commodity and partner country. Allows data to be viewed by product classification, reporting country, direction of trade flow, product, or year. Users can create and save queries for multiple countries, products, years, and flows; check data availability by country and product classification; create country and product groups; calculate simple averages or weighted tariffs rates; calculate effects of tariff reductions using the simulation function; and extract data in Excel format.

# _<u>Global Monitoring Report 2004; Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index (OTRI)</u>_

Global Monitoring focuses on how the world is doing in implementing the policies and actions for achieving the MDGs and related development outcomes. It is a framework for accountability in global development policy. The 2004 Global Monitoring Report is part of a five-year stocktaking effort to monitor progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

When the focus is on measuring the trade effects of policies on an importing economy, the trade restrictiveness index can be defined as the equivalent uniform tariff that would keep imports constant. When the focus is on an exporting country’s perspective (market access), the index is the equivalent uniform tariff implied by the set of policies maintained by each country (or all importers) on that economy’s export bundle. The OTRI is calculated as the weighted sum of nominal tariffs and the ad valorem equivalent of nontariff measures at the tariff line level. OTRIs are negatively correlated with GDP per capita—the higher is a country’s GDP per capita, the lower is its trade restrictiveness as measured by the OTRI. For developing countries for which such data are available, OTRIs are positively correlated with poverty headcounts: the higher is a country’s trade restrictiveness, the poorer it tends to be.

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