Bilateral Trade in Goods by End-use

The Bilateral Trade in Goods by End-Use (BTiGE) database aims at highlighting international flows of intermediate and final goods. It is based primarily on UN Comtrade annual trade statistics, supplemented where necessary by national sources and OECD Secretariat estimates. Using a correspondence table developed by the OECD, flows of products reported under different versions of the Harmonized System (the latest being HS-2022), are mapped to activities based upon the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA 2.1) and to end-use categories. 

The database was designed to include balanced trade flows which, combined with national Supply-Use and Input-Output Tables, feed 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 classified by CPA activities and grouped into 11 end-use categories of the products with three core groups: capital goods, intermediate inputs, and consumer goods.