Market Data

Analysing trade data for SIDS is complex due to issues such as non-reporting, reporting delays and inaccuracies, making collating and interpreting data to spot trade trends a key challenge. The SIDS Trade Tracker addresses this gap by making accessible trade indicators on a wide range of topics, from recent trends to export concentration and SIDS-specific factors such as remoteness, tourism dependence and food import reliance.

Policymakers, for example, can use the tool to monitor trade development challenges of SIDS and design strategies to overcome them.

The COVID-19 pandemic altered shopping habits and business models, especially for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises across Asia. E-commerce showed unprecedented growth as businesses and consumers turned to digital channels. To document this online landscape, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the International Trade Center (ITC) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences undertook a regional study to create a unique database mapping the traffic volumes and characteristics of a selection of Asian marketplaces.

The Asia Marketplace Explorer (AME) brings together these three freely available and innovative dashboards. They allow wide analysis of goods-oriented marketplaces, on both a business to consumer and a consumer to consumer model.

These innovative dashboards were developed by the ITC ecomConnect team, ESCAP, and the Centre for Market Insights of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

This tool follows previous efforts by ITC to map online marketplace activity with the Africa Marketplace Explorer launched in 2020 and the Latin America and Caribbean Marketplace Explorer launched in 2022.

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