Trade Policy Information System (TPIS)

Summary U.S. Trade Information (available to the Public)

TPIS available at the "Sign in to TPIS" link below is available only to Federal Government Users. Contractors or institutions outside the federal government can only use the system through a federal agency account, under a grant or contract from that agency. New customers must first register an account.

• Sign in to TPIS.

US Trade data updated for March 2013 on 05/02/2013 (1:00pm).

UN Trade for 2012 available for 69 reporter countries (05/14/2013).

US Trade data available for full year 2012 (Jan-Dec) (02/08/2013, 12:56pm).

2011 US Trade REVISED data are available (6/08/2012).

IMF Direction of Trade (DOT) for 2011 annual available, and access to pre-1980 trade totals is now available: for some countries data can be accessed for annual 1948-on, monthly 1963-on, quarterly 1973-on. NOTE: DOT contains bilateral export and import merchandise trade totals for IMF member countries. (6/20/2012).

IMPORTANT: There are almost 1200 new HS import codes and 600 new export codes for 2012 (3/12/2012)!

TPIS includes detailed current and historical trade data from various sources, including:

• detailed U.S. merchandise trade statistics (originating with the Bureau of the Census);
• trade statistics of over 170 countries (from the United Nations); and
• multi-country statistics on international finance, direction of trade, balance of payments and developing country debt (from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank).

TPIS is distinguished by its ability to do retrieval and manipulation operations on a variety of consistent, current, detailed and extensive data series to:

• enable comprehensive trade policy analysis for decision makers;
• assure that data used are timely;
• make data consistently available with consistent values throughout the United States Government trade community; and
• provide a processing faculty equally important as the data, equipped with special tools for analysis and customized reports.

TPIS is used by many federal government agencies for:

• trade policy development (e.g. identifying unusual trade patterns indicating trade barriers);
• trade policy implementation (e.g. developing tariff line item retaliation lists, monitoring textile/apparel and other import quota/restraints);
• trade district analysis;
• publication of reports which contain data on U.S. exports and imports by product group and trading partner; and
• export promotion planning (e.g. analysis of U.S. export capabilities and global competition).

For more information or to report connection problems, please contact the TPIS Help Desk.