Home Site Map Index Contact
 
   Search :
More Options | Search Tips
Bangkok, Thailand

APTIAD Home     Trade agreements database     Interactive trade indicators     Glossary  


Interactive Trade Indicators



    >> ITI Indices Back to ITI home
   Export Value
   Import Value
   Export Growth
   Import Growth
   Export Share
   Import Share
   Trade Share
   Trade Intensity
   Regional Hirschmann
   Sectoral Hirschmann
   RCA
   Regional Orientation
   Complementarity
   Competitiveness
   IIT (Sectoral)
   IIT (Aggregate)
   IIT (Sectoral Marginal)
   IIT (Aggregate Marginal)
   Regional Market Share
IIT (Aggregate)
The aggregate intra-industry trade index provides us with an overall measure of the relative importance of intra-industry trade in an economy’s trade profile. As with sectoral IIT, higher ratios suggest that the economies of scale and variety sources of gains are being exploited. Alternatives are the trade overlap index, and the complementarity index (when applied to a single country).

Select source region:
Select destination region:
Select commodity:
Select year:
 
  
Definition:
The trade weighted average of the sectoral IIT indices (the weights are provided by the trade shares).

Range of values:
The index ranges from 0 to 1, with zero indicating pure inter-industry trade, and one indicating pure intra-industry trade.

For further note on this indicator, including an example and formula, see the relevant section of Trade Statistics in Policymaking: A Handbook of Commonly Used Trade Indices and Indicators.
Copyright (c) 2005 UNESCAP  |   Legal Notice