ESCAP Trade Cost Database
(version 2 - issued December 2011)
The Trade and Investment Division, in support to the ARTNeT research programme on trade facilitation, has developed a bilateral trade cost database in an effort to increase understanding of the cost of trading between countries in Asia and the Pacific and beyond. The trade cost measure is a comprehensive all-inclusive measure based on micro-theory and calculated using macro-economic data, providing an alternative measure of trade facilitation performance. For an introduction to the latest database and methodological details, please refer to Duval and Utoktham (2011), "Updated and New Sectoral Trade Cost Estimates in Asia and the Pacific", ESCAP TID Staff Working Papers, No. 05/2011.
