The Nuclear Trade Atlas is developed to promote understanding of global trade flows of nuclear goods. Trade flows are classified under a basket of Harmonized System (HS) codes associated with nuclear commodities. While these HS codes are understood to also encompass non-nuclear items, they nevertheless provide a good macroscopic view of potentially nuclear trade flows. The Atlas is published as a book and as an online tool presenting country-based and commodity-based views of global nuclear trade.
The slice of world trade data underlying the Nuclear Trade Atlas is made available here. The raw data was originally reported to and made publicly available by the United Nations Statistical Division (UN Comtrade data), then processed to mirror and reconcile trade asymmetries by the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (BACI data). For details about the BACI data processing method, see: Gaulier, G.; Zignago, S. (2010) BACI: International Trade Database at the Product-Level. The 1994-2007 Version. CEPII Working Paper, N°2010-23.
