Canada - Net barter terms of trade index

Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100) in Canada was 99.67 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 121.49 in 2008 and 94.77 in 2002.

Definition: Net barter terms of trade index is calculated as the percentage ratio of the export unit value indexes to the import unit value indexes, measured relative to the base year 2000. Unit value indexes are based on data reported by countries that demonstrate consistency under UNCTAD quality controls, supplemented by UNCTAD's estimates using the previous year’s trade values at the Standard International Trade Classification three-digit level as weights. To improve data coverage, especially for the latest periods, UNCTAD constructs a set of average prices indexes at the three-digit product classification of the Standard International Trade Classification revision 3 using UNCTAD’s Commodity Price Statistics, interna­tional and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates and calculates unit value indexes at the country level using the current year's trade values as weights.

Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Handbook of Statistics and data files, and International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics.

See also:

Year Value
2000 100.00
2001 99.62
2002 94.77
2003 100.80
2004 106.66
2005 111.56
2006 111.73
2007 115.59
2008 121.49
2009 106.37
2010 115.19
2011 117.82
2012 114.91
2013 116.05
2014 115.24
2015 102.94
2016 102.29
2017 105.52
2018 107.02
2019 105.38
2020 99.67

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes