This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries and 5,000 products, between 1994 and 2007. New approaches have been developed to reconcile data reported by almost 150 countries to the United Nations Statistics Division,...

Since the beginning of the decade, French exports in goods and services have grown less dynamically than German ones. Indeed, independently of any exchange-rate mechanism, the ratio of French to German exports in manufactured goods in current prices dropped by 3.3% on average per year between...

L’article commence par estimer le niveau et les coûts de la protection en Europe. Le niveau moyen de protection (droits de douane et principales barrières non-tarifaires) est de 12 % environ (contre 14 % jusqu’en 1997) avec des pics élevés pour les produits agricoles et certains biens...