During the last decade, the volume of international trade has increased significantly as international
economic integration has deepened, especially in emerging countries, and national industrial structures
have become increasingly aligned with international trade in intermediate goods. The OECD STAN
Bilateral Trade Database by Industry and End-use Category (BTDIxE) presents international trade in
goods flows broken down both by industry sectors and by end-use categories, allowing insights into the
patterns of trade in intermediate goods between countries to track global production networks and supply
chains as well as helping to address other trade-related policy issues such as trade in value added and
tasks.
