Bilateral Trade in Goods by End-use

The Bilateral Trade in Goods by End-Use (BTiGE) database aims at highlighting international flows of intermediate goods. It is built on UN Comtrade, supplemented with national statistics and OECD Secretariat estimates. Using a correspondence table developed by the OECD, flows of products, reported in different versions of the Harmonized System (the latest being HS-2022), are broken down by activities based upon the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA 2.1) and by end-use categories. This release introduces an extended list of reporters, with data broadly presented for the period 1989-2023, and several changes implemented in the new conversion key.

The database was designed to include balanced trade flows which, combined with national Supply-Use and Input-Output Tables, serve as an input into the OECD’s Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) model, the principle source of the OECD's Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators.

The database includes values (in current US dollars) of imports and exports, as well as re-imports and re-exports when available, for about 190 reporters and 200 trading partners worldwide. Trade flows are divided into 11 end-use categories of the products, such as capital goods, intermediate inputs and consumer goods, and presented by CPA activities.