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•     ARTNeT Trade Publication Database

The ARTNeT database of trade publications gives access to full-text trade-related publications of research institutions and international organizations working in the Asia-Pacific region, including ARTNeT members and partners.

The database is updated regularly and allows search by trade focus areas, source, keywords and more.

•     ARTNeT Alerts on Emerging Policy Challenges

-   Trade as an Engine of Stable Growth in an Integrated Asia
•     Selected online resources by areas of research
  

•   ARTNeT Research Groups

 
-   Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration (restricted)
-   Trade Facilitation (restricted)
-   Ag. Trade Liberalization (restricted)

 
•   Useful links

 
   Market Access Map
   Making tariffs and market access
   barriers transparent

Market Access Map (www.macmap.org) provides a rich source of customs tariffs for 170 countries. Multilateral and preferential trade agreements are covered. This constitutes a useful tool for ARTNeT members looking for specific data on tariffs and barriers to trade in their region of study.

   TradeMap
   Trade statistics for international
   business development

TradeMap (www.trademap.org), based on the world's largest trade database COMTRADE, covers the trade flows of 224 countries and territories. It has the potential to provide ARTNeT researchers with the access to import/export values and quantities, growth rates and markets main characteristics.

ECLAC Interactive Graphic Trade Data System - provides (in Spanish) free interactive graphs and tables of trade data for Latin American countries but also APEC countries and other major trading countries.

   Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database

Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

   Tools for Agricultural Trade Analysis:
   ATPSM and AMAD



ATPSM (Agriculture Trade Policy Simulation Model) is a trade policy simulation model. It can be used as a tool for quantifying economic effects at the global and regional level of changes in trade policies. The user specifies a specific change in trade policy such as a tariff reduction and the model simulates the new prices and trade flows and calculates welfare effects. ATPSM is typically to analyse data from AMAD (Agricultural Market Access Database).

TIS Gateway - ESCAP's Trade Information System Gateway provides up-to-date links to a wide range of trade and investment related resources.





UNCTAD VI - UNCTAD Virtual Institute is a knowledge sharing programme designed to strengthen the capacity of academic institutions to teach and research trade issues.

•   Capacity Building Activities
























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