REASONS FOR MAINTAINING GLOBAL TRADE DATA – BENEFITS FOR SUPPLIERS AND BUYERS

At present, all the countries are taking part actively in global trade to expand their markets and to increase their economy. Global trade, as the term suggests, is a process of exchanging goods and services across international borders. Various processes that are included in it are exports, FDI, Imports, setting MNCs, job outsourcing, etc. Now the question arises that how to keep records of imports, exports, and entrepots of different countries on regular basis. For this, every country maintains its Global Trade Data which records all necessary information about the products, their prices, quantity, most imported and exported goods, etc. in one place so that it gets easy to understand for the trader. Global Trade Data is considered one of the 3Cs of foreign trade (compliance, content, and connectivity). Every detail about the product, source country, and the destination country is mentioned in the data. Global Trade Data is collected from each country and consists of shipme...