TradeWeave is a free, open-access global trade analytics platform covering 238 countries, 6,800+ products, and 30 years of bilateral trade data from BACI/CEPII. It provides interactive visualizations, country profiles, tariff simulations, economic complexity rankings, and trade forecasting tools.

What data sources does TradeWeave use?

TradeWeave combines data from BACI/CEPII (bilateral trade flows), WITS/TRAINS (tariff rates), World Bank WDI (macroeconomic indicators), ESCAP-World Bank (bilateral trade costs), FRED and BLS (freight indices, exchange rates), and FAOSTAT (agricultural trade).

How can I analyze a country's trade profile?

Visit the Country Profiles page and select any of 238 countries to see their export composition, top trade partners, revealed comparative advantage (RCA), Economic Complexity Index (ECI), trade diversification, and 30-year trends.

What is the Economic Complexity Index (ECI)?

The Economic Complexity Index (ECI), developed by Hidalgo and Hausmann, measures the productive knowledge embedded in a country's export basket. Countries that export a diverse set of sophisticated products score higher. TradeWeave ranks all 238 countries by ECI from 1995 to 2024.

Can I simulate the impact of tariff changes?

Yes. TradeWeave's Tariff Simulator lets you model how tariff changes affect import volumes using real product-level demand elasticities and MFN tariff rates for over 1,200 HS4 products.

How far back does the trade data go?

The primary BACI dataset covers 1995-2024 with HS6 product detail. TradeWeave also includes historical trade data spanning over 200 years (1800-present) from academic compilations.

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What we ship

What we ship. Seven recurring engagements, each grounded in the live TradeWeave workbench. The public pages and the client work share one codebase, one Parquet corpus, and one standard of evidence; the deliverables are private, the methods and the primary-lit citations are not.

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Trade exposure audit

Identify which markets and products leave a client’s trade footprint exposed to shocks. Bilateral flow panels, share-shift decomposition, peer benchmarks, and ADH-style China-shock exposure on BACI and CEPII Gravity.

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Tariff scenario briefing

Partial-equilibrium price pass-through and Caliendo-Parro general-equilibrium impact of a proposed tariff change, including retaliation variants. Kee-Nicita-Olarreaga elasticities and sensitivity on the trade elasticity.

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Supply chain diagnostic

Map critical-input dependencies and concentration risk across a sourcing portfolio. Upstreamness, foreign value-added share, chokepoint routing, and friendshoring alternative rankings.

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Market entry assessment

Size the opportunity for a product or sector in a target market. Gravity-implied potential, RCA and proximity on the product space, tariff and NTM wedge, and a near-neighbour competitor scan.

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Sanctions compliance review

Trace a client’s exposure to sanctioned jurisdictions, entities, and dual-use product categories. Bilateral flow tracing, transshipment screens, and overlay of OFAC, EU, and UK measures on BACI HS6.

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CBAM and green-trade readiness

Quantify CBAM and green-trade exposure for covered sectors (cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, hydrogen). Embedded-emissions accounting, CBAM price pass-through, and peer benchmarks.

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Custom research

Bespoke trade, macro, and industrial-policy research that does not fit a standard template. Scoped to the question, delivered against the same Parquet corpus and cited-estimator library as the public pages.

How engagements work

Every engagement starts with a scoping conversation and a written proposal: question, data sources, method, deliverable format, and timeline. Work is billed fixed-fee per deliverable where possible, hourly where the scope is genuinely open. Data handed over by the client is governed by a mutual NDA; nothing client-confidential appears on the public site.

Deliverables are typically a written brief with figures and tables, a Parquet slice of the treated series, and a short presentation. Every number traces to a primary source, every method cites the paper behind it, and the underlying query is documented so a client analyst can reproduce the figure without us.

Start a conversation

If one of the offerings above fits, or if the question is close enough that custom research is the right frame, contact us with a short description of the problem and the decision it informs. We reply within two business days with a scoping memo and an indicative timeline.