Video Tutorials

Trade Stats

Introduction to WITS and Trade Stats

This tutorial gives an overview of the WITS site and also on TradeStats database that provides aggregate trade, tariff and development indicators.
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Trade Stats Country View

This video walks you through details on how to use WITS TradeStats database to obtain a country's trade, tariff and development indicator.
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Trade

Advanced Query Trade Data

The Advanced Query tool lets you construct complex queries using the UN COMTRADE, TRAINS, and WTO IDB Databases.
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Bulk Download (UN Comtrade)

The Bulk Download tool lets you download a large amount of UN Comtrade data at the leaf level.
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Quick Search by Country Period

Performing a query using "UN COMTRADE By Country/Period" allows you to access trade values and quantities for all traded products for one reporter country, one year, and one or all partners.
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Quick Search by Product

You can use WITS to conduct simple queries efficiently by scrolling to the “Quick Search” tab.
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Trade - View and export tariff-line imports

The “Trade – View and Export Tariff-line Imports” tool lets you query available databases and retrieve tariff-line imports of all traded products.
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Trade Outcomes Indicators

The Trade Outcomes Indicators tool lets you query the UN COMTRADE database and construct up to twenty-one different indicators that are classified into four dimensions of trade performance
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Tariff

Tariff and Trade Analysis

The Advanced Query – Tariff and Trade Analysis tool lets you access data on multiple tariff types and rates from UNCTAD and WTO databases.
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Bulk Download (TRAINS)

The Bulk Download tool lets you download a large amount of data for both Preferential and Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) rates from UNCTAD’s TRAINS database at the 6-digit level of the Harmonized System.
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Tariff Profiles / Indicators

The Tariff Profiles tool lets you quickly access MFN Applied tariff rates and associated import statistics in the UNCTAD TRAINS database.
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NTM - View and Export Raw Data

The “NTM – View and Export Raw Data” tool lets you query the TRAINS database to retrieve data on non-tariff measures.
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Tariff -- Find a Tariff

The “Tariff - Find a Tariff” lets allows you view tariff rates by selecting from one data source, one market, one year, and one or all duty codes.
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Tariff - View and Export Raw Data

The "Tariff - View and Export Raw Data" tool lets you query available databases and retrieve duties applied to all countries. This tool is also useful for comparing rates of various trade agreements.
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