TradeWeave is a free, open-access global trade analytics platform covering 238 countries, 5,115 products, and 29 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 1996 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 1996-2024 with HS6 product detail. TradeWeave also includes historical trade data spanning over 200 years (1800-present) from academic compilations.

Globalization Waves

Nearly two centuries of international trade (1827-2014)

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What did the world trade? 1962-2024

Harvard Growth Lab Atlas of Economic Complexity, SITC Rev.2 classification, plain USD. This dataset picks up where TRADHIST above leaves off and extends to the present.

World Exports by SITC Section

World merchandise exports decomposed into the 10 SITC Rev.2 sections, 1962-2024

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Bilateral Trade Across Two Sources

TRADHIST (1827-2014) and the Growth Lab Atlas (1962-2024) are independent reconstructions with different methodologies. They are plotted as separate series, never spliced into one line: at shared years the two sources routinely diverge.

No trade recorded between USA and CHN in either source (TRADHIST 1827-2014, Atlas 1962-2024).

Country Export Snapshot

Top 15 SITC4 export lines for a country and year, colored by SITC section. The Atlas provides 4-digit codes only; no verified product-name lookup exists for SITC4 on this site, so lines are shown by code and section, not by product description.

Year: 2024

No export data for USA in 2024 (Atlas coverage: 1962-2024).

Source: Fouquin & Hugot (2016), CEPII TRADHIST (Historical Trade Database), 1827-2014 | The Growth Lab at Harvard University, International Trade Data (SITC, Rev. 2), Harvard Dataverse, CC0 1.0, 1962-2024

Methodology: Historical bilateral trade flows reconstructed from primary sources. Coverage and methodology differ from modern BACI data (1996-2024). SITC composition and bilateral series use the Growth Lab Atlas of Economic Complexity, plain USD (not thousands); TRADHIST and Atlas figures are independent reconstructions and are not spliced into a single series.

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