About the product
This publication consists of two main parts. First, the Introduction explains the scope and content of the BTI (International Transport Database) maintained by ECLAC’s Transport Unit. It covers annual trade and transport statistics and readers are informed about the fields of information included in the database. The second part contains detailed tables and charts about the value and volume of imports and exports of the eleven Latin American countries covered by the BTI. It also includes information about the use of different transport modes, the costs of international freight and insurance and the traded commodities. Data is annual, for the year 2000, and grouped by the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) codes.
