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Selecting Exporters/Partners

Exporters/Partners are countries which export to the selected reporters and possibly face tariff protection when entering the market. For example, if Argentina is reporter and Brazil is partner, WITS will return tariff faced by Brazil entering Argentina's market.

Click on <<Select>> next to Exporters/Partners to open the corresponding selection panel.

The Select Exporters/Partners panel contains two panels: On the left hand panel you have three choices (i) Select Individual Country/Countries from Country List (ii) Select Standard Country Groups from Predefined Country Groups or (iii) select your own country group from My Country Group You can go through the full list of countries or groups by using the vertical scroll bar in the respective select boxes. You can select the country/countries or group(s) after selecting it in the select box and pressing the > next to the select box.If you have selected Groups and in your results you need the break down for individual countries also check the Include Country Group Breakdown check box.

To remove one more selected country or group select them on the right hand side and click on Remove button. To remove all the selection click on Remove All button. To cancel the selections and close the window click on the Cancel button. To confirm your selection click on the Proceed button, the Reporter selection window will close and will be displayed in Importers/Reporters section in the query panel. To modify the selection made click << Modify >>.

To learn how to create customized country groups, see Building and Managing Country Groups

Note: If you click on << Modify >> while modifying a query you will get an alert message Click OK to overwrite. Click Cancel to give new name.. If you click OK then the selection for the existing query is changed and if you click Cancel you will be provided with a screen to rename the query with a new Query Name and Query Description .If you clicked Cancel by mistake you can hit the Cancel button in the new screen and not rename the query.

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