I have had several chances of being told about mirror analysis, which compares Country A's import data and Country B's export data to Country A. Ideally, the two data should be matched well. However, in practice, there is usually a huge gap between the two data. Thus, many scholars claim that the gap means the existence of smuggling or informal trade between the two countries. My question was not whether the gap between import data and export data can be interpreted as informal trade between countries but how scholars have obtained such trade data. While reading a couple of articles regarding trade facilitation, I recognized that the UN provides such trade data for free.
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