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The goods and services we buy are composed of inputs from various countries around the world. However, the flows of goods and services within these global production chains are not always reflected in conventional measures of international trade.

The joint OECD – WTO Trade in Value-Added (TiVA) initiative addresses this issue by considering the value added by each country in the production of goods and services that are consumed worldwide.  TiVA indicators are designed to better inform policy makers by providing new insights into the commercial relations between nations.

Database access and content

Country notes

Guide to the country notes

OECD member countries
	Australia		Austria		Belgium		Canada		Chile
	Czech Republic		Denmark		Estonia		Finland		France
	Germany		Greece		Hungary		Iceland		Ireland
	Israel		Italy		Japan		Korea		Luxembourg
	Mexico		Netherlands		New Zealand		Norway		Poland
	Portugal		Slovak Republic		Slovenia		Spain	‌	Sweden
	Switzerland		Turkey		United Kingdom		United States		European Union
Non-member economies
	Brazil		China		India	‌	Indonesia	‌	Russian Federation
‌	South Africa	‌		‌		‌

Contact

For any queries about the TiVA database, please write to: TIVA.contact@oecd.org.

Global value chains and going beyond trade in value added

Taking into account the origin of value added is only the beginning of the OECD's work in this area. A new book, Interconnected Economies: Benefiting from Global Value Chains was presented at the OECD Forum end May 2013, covering trade policy, investment policies and other domestic policies aimed at drawing the benefits from engagement in global value chains. Much of the evidence that feeds into this work draws on the underlying Statistical Information System (global input-output database) developed to produce the TIVA database, where further indicators can be expected in a number of areas in the coming years. Two important areas in this respect concern 'trade in jobs and skills', where indicators will begin to be rolled out for some countries later this year and over the longer term; and how income (profits) generated from trade flows, in particular how income generated via knowledge based assets, is further distributed between affiliate companies will also be explored. The Statistical Information System also lends itself to the calculation of indicators in a number of other areas such as carbon footprints, where the OECD will look to update its earlier results, notably as part of the OECD Green Growth Indicators.

→ Short address for this page: www.oecd.org/trade/valueadded.

→ Tiny url: oe.cd/tiva.

Related Documents

Global Value Chains