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Practical exercice
55. Which is the most important sector in value in 2009 (HS-2 digit) imported by the attractive
market from the world
HS-2 digit: _________ Sector Name:__________ Exported value in 2009:_______________
Note: click on the title on the Value in 2009 under “Attractive country’s imports from world”
(fifth column) to rank the imported value in descending order.
56. Which is the most important sector in value in 2009 (HS-2 digit) exported by the exporting
country to the world
HS-2 digit: _________ Sector Name: _________ Exported value in 2009:_______________
Note: Click on the title on the Value in 2009 under “Exporting country’s exports to world”
(eight column) to rank the exported value in descending order.
Identify indicative potential trade between two countries:
Note: In the table showing Bilateral trade between the Exporting country and the selected
attractive country in 2009, click on “Product cluster at 6-digit” in the row “other criteria”.
A new column will appear to the right of the table, “Indicative potential trade, USD thousand”.
The indicative potential trade has been computed based on the following logic, which is valid
for each six-digit product:
- The supply capacity is represented by the exports of the selected country to the world.
- The demand is represented by the imports of the selected partner country from the world.
- Trade potential is defined as the lower of the value between a selected country exports to
the world or the value the partner country imports from the world minus the current trade
between the two countries under review.
The trade potential is indicative only and serves as a departure point for further research. It
gives an overview of the complementarities of the two economies.
Only the positive values of the potential trade are displayed. Indeed there could be a
negative result in case the data of the two selected countries are in conflict (in the case
where a country reports a bilateral trade value greater than the unilateral trade value (i.e.
with the entire world) reported by the partner country).
57. For which products (HS-6 digit) the two countries present indicative potential trade
List the five first products (HS-6 digit with the highest indicative potential trade):
58.
Comments about the results: