Trade monitoring

Acknowledgements are due to the International Monetary Fund, the International Trade Centre, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The assistance of all these organizations in supplying statistics as well as other information has greatly facilitated the work of the WTO Secretariat.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the sum of output within the economy’s territory minus the sum of intermediate consumption (increased by taxes net of subsidies on products). It is measured in nominal terms and with market exchange rates.