Trade Policy Information System (TPIS)

The Trade Policy Information System is designed and operated by the Office of Trade and Industry Information for the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration.

TPIS is presently available only within the Federal Government. Contractors or institutions outside the federal government can only use the system through a federal agency account, under a grant or contract from that agency. To find out more:

TPIS includes detailed current and historical trade data from various sources, including:

detailed U.S. merchandise trade statistics (originating with the Bureau of the Census);
trade statistics of over 170 countries (from the United Nations); and
multi-country statistics on international finance, direction of trade, balance of payments and developing country debt (from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank).

TPIS is distinguished by its ability to do retrieval and manipulation operations on a variety of consistent, current, detailed and extensive data series to:

enable comprehensive trade policy analysis for decision makers;
assure that data used are timely;
make data consistently available with consistent values throughout the United States Government trade community; and
provide a processing faculty equally important as the data, equipped with special tools for analysis and customized reports.

TPIS is used by many federal government agencies for:

trade policy development (e.g. identifying unusual trade patterns indicating trade barriers);
trade policy implementation (e.g. developing tariff line item retaliation lists, monitoring textile/apparel and other import quota/restraints);
trade district analysis;
publication of reports which contain data on U.S. exports and imports by product group and trading partner; and
export promotion planning (e.g. analysis of U.S. export capabilities and global competition).

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Links to Web sites outside the U.S. federal government or the use of trade, firm, or corporation names within the International Trade Administration Web sites are for the convenience of the user. Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the U.S. Commerce Department of any private sector Web site, product, or service.

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