What is Mirror Data?
What Countries Do We Have Data On?
The short answer is every country in the world. However not every county shares their Bill of Lading Data with us. You can look at the map below to see the countries in yellow that directly share bill of lading data and the ones that share mirror data. Mirror data is used to understand international trade flows by relying on the import or export data of a country's trading partners when that country does not share detailed import export data. This means that only shipments that can be seen for this country are the trades between other countries that do share that data.
Mirror Data Example:
Turkey shares detailed export data, including Bill of Lading information, but France does not. To analyze trade between Turkey and France, you can use Turkey's export data to understand what is being shipped to France. You’d also be able to see France’s shipments to Turkey. However, you wouldn’t be able to see detailed shipment data from Italy to France as Italy doesn’t share their bill of lading data and neither does France.
The countries I want to target are not in yellow, does this mean
there’s no data on this country?
No this is not true. Just because this country doesn’t directly share it’s bill of lading data doesn’t mean we can’t get detailed information on the importers and exporters of different shipments. If that country imports or exports anything to or from the countries that do share bill of lading data we can get access to those detailed shipping records. This detailed infomation includes the importer name, exporter name, weight, quantity, value in USD and all the other information on the bill of lading.
What is shipping Data?
You may be able to see some data between two countries that share bill of lading data through shipping data. Shipping data is not as detailed as Bill of Lading data. It does not include the names of the exporters or the consignees of a shipment, but it does share the description of the goods, the quantity, and the forwarding company. You can read more about shipping data here.
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