Hanse is a tool for analysing international trade flows. Hanse offers unique search capabilities at a highly detailed level to help identify critical trade relationships.
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Hanse is a tool for analysing international trade flows. Hanse offers unique search capabilities at a highly detailed level to help identify critical trade relationships.
Tesla recently complained that the U.S.-China trade war hurts its ability to import needed parts from China as components for its cars. hanse data show that China has been increasing its share in U.S. motor cars parts imports second only to Mexico between 2007 and 2017. Global success factors dominate but differential regional supply chain patterns have emerged..
Read MoreThe scheduled exit from the EU by the UK is set to diminish EU-UK trade relations. However, UK-EU trade relations have cooled well before the 2016 Brexit vote. hanse data show that since prior to the global financial and economic crisis in 2007 the UK has become an increasingly less important trading partner for the EU.
Read MoreThe New York stock market ended down on 14 December at least amid mounting concerns about an escalating U.S- China trade war. It serves as an urgent reminder, how much China has been increasingly shaping U.S. trade relations. hanse data show that during the past 30 years, China increased its share in total U.S. imports from 1.6 percent in 1987 to 22.0 percent in 2017.
Read MoreThe escalation of the US-China trade war serves as a reminder that countries suffer differently under trade frictions depending on their relative trade positions. The impact of tariffs on trade and trade diversion are notoriously difficult to estimate. However, looking at trade sectors, past expansions should reveal where trade frictions are likely to have the biggest impact. China and the US maintain very narrow trade patterns in their bilateral goods trade and are therefore highly susceptible
Read MoreTurkey faces a potentially severe economic crisis amid poor domestic economic policy decisions and mounting sanctions by the U.S. While Turkey has sustained high economic growth since 2010 of 6.5 percent per year, the recent sharp depreciation of the lira from 3.80 lira to the dollar at end-2017 to 6.01 lira on 17 August risks destabilising the economy and undermine its capacity to service its external debt. An economic crisis would naturally impact Turkey’s bilateral international trade relations.
Read MoreThe product iron or steel structures and parts thereof HS730890 forms part of grouping HS7308 structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures of chapter HS73 iron and steel articles. Grouping HS7308 comprises 4 other products: HS730810 iron or steel; structures and parts thereof; bridges and bridge-sections; HS730820 iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, towers and lattice masts
Read MoreThe escalation of the US-China trade war serves as a reminder that countries suffer differently under trade frictions depending on their relative trade positions. The impact of tariffs on trade and trade diversion are notoriously difficult to estimate. However, looking at trade sectors, past expansions should reveal where trade frictions are likely to have the biggest impact. China and the US maintain very narrow trade patterns in their bilateral goods trade and are therefore highly susceptible
Turkey faces a potentially severe economic crisis amid poor domestic economic policy decisions and mounting sanctions by the U.S. While Turkey has sustained high economic growth since 2010 of 6.5 percent per year, the recent sharp depreciation of the lira from 3.80 lira to the dollar at end-2017 to 6.01 lira on 17 August risks destabilising the economy and undermine its capacity to service its external debt. An economic crisis would naturally impact Turkey’s bilateral international trade relations.
The escalation of the US-China trade war serves as a reminder that countries suffer differently under trade frictions depending on their relative trade positions. The impact of tariffs on trade and trade diversion are notoriously difficult to estimate. However, looking at trade sectors, past expansions should reveal where trade frictions are likely to have the biggest impact. China and the US maintain very narrow trade patterns in their bilateral goods trade and are therefore highly susceptibleThe escalation of the US-China trade war serves as a reminder that countries suffer differently under trade frictions depending on their relative trade positions. The impact of tariffs on trade and trade diversion are notoriously difficult to estimate. However, looking at trade sectors, past expansions should reveal where trade frictions are likely to have the biggest impact. China and the US maintain very narrow trade patterns in their bilateral goods trade and are therefore highly susceptibleThe escalation of the US-China trade war serves as a reminder that countries suffer differently under trade frictions depending on their relative trade positions. The impact of tariffs on trade and trade diversion are notoriously difficult to estimate. However, looking at trade sectors, past expansions should reveal where trade frictions are likely to have the biggest impact. China and the US maintain very narrow trade patterns in their bilateral goods trade and are therefore highly susceptible
Unique search capabilities and tools
Identify critical international trade patterns, relationships and competitors
Perform detailed country, sector and product analyses
200 million records of exports and imports of the U.S., European Union (12), Japan and China and more than 180 partner countries
Harmonised System (HS) at up to 6 digits (5053 products) from 2000 through today
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 1 at up to 5 digits (1033 product) from 1963 through today
Hanse has been developed by Ousmène Jacques Mandeng with Hanse International Trade Analytics, a start-up located in London, U.K. that focuses on economic data processing and business intelligence software.
Ousmène has worked on international trade for many years and developed the programme Trade CAN for analysing international trade for the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) during the 1990s.
The data underlying Hanse is from the United National Comtrade database and updated continuously.
