TRADE

FORESIGHT
A BREAKTHROUGH INTO TRADE ANALYTICS
What is TRADE FORESIGHT?
Trade Foresight aims to provide analytical information from globally recognized data sources like World

WHAT
Bank, UN COMTRADE, WITS, MIT Atlas, etc. that empowers users with complete horizon of econometrics
with in-depth understandings of legal circumstances leading to better business and trade
decision-making.
Trade Foresight helps users to formulate strong trade policies that can help them achieve their goals by not
only providing up-to-date trade data but also tools to visualize and utilize that data to suit their needs. Trade

IS TRADE
Foresight is not just an Information Portal. It is backed by a Suite of Executive Dashboards, Reports and
Robust Data Store that can be used by Trade experts to extract information as per their needs, thus answering
any trade related question that they can imagine.
What makes Trade Foresight special is that it is an interdisciplinary platform i.e. it does not only deal with the
economic aspect of trade but also the legal aspect by including a database solely for the trade agreements,
international standards that must be met before the product is exported, and trade remedies.

FORESIGHT
Trade Foresight provides a one-stop solution to governments, trade related agencies and Small-Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) to help them make smart trade decisions. It also provides futuristic solution, that predicts
and prescribes, future market trends and needs, while utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
based models.

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What Does Everyone Want To Achieve?

WHAT DOES
Every country, its government and trade authorities want to reduce the trade deficit or maintain its trade surplus
while ensuring that:
a. Their best products are exported to the most lucrative markets.
b. Imports are carried out from countries that offer the best value in terms of pricing, quality, etc.

EVERYONE
c. Trade and economic policies are designed while keeping in view the budding SMEs, economic efficiency,
competitiveness and other internal and external factors.

WANT TO
The SMEs want to to save time and focus on achieving efficiency while ensuring that:
a. They export those products in which they have achieved comparative advantage over other countries.
b. They operate or function in the market which is the most viable for doing business.
c. They explore the markets for cheap raw material imports and offer its export goods in the most attractive

ACHIEVE?
market.
d. To keep abreast with the changing trading scenarios by keeping updated with the evolution in trade
agreements, laws, policies, protections, etc.

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Why Can’t They Achieve It?
IIt’s all about information

WHY
The main barrier to do efficient business with different countries or defining economic policies is availability and
usability of information. The information is either scattered in different sources, too complex to
understand and process or is available only to selected traders or trade associations. Hence, the picture
is never complete!

CAN’T THEY
a. Countries, Trade authorities and SMEs have access to limited data – Thus, both on Micro and Macro
level, decisions are taken and policies are developed without having complete information.
b. Trade laws and data changes regularly, and there are times when traders are in a situation where their
export or import gets held at customs due to recent changes in trade agreements.
c. There are also scenarios, where a new trade agreement results in access to new markets - Where a niche

ACHIEVE IT? product can be exported, or a product from that market can be imported.

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What Are We Offering?

WHAT
We are completing the picture by making trade ralated data accessible and understandable to every trader in
the world. Efficient Decision is the key, and Trade Foresight is the platform that equips Trade Authorities to take
Data Driven Decisions. It consolidates data from different sources, calculates KPIs, brings forward key market
information and resolves the complexities of trade data while enabling trade authorities:
a. Understand how easy or difficult is to do business in different international markets – Right Now.

ARE WE
b. Track changes in trade flows and trade laws.
c. Understand, what can be exported to which market and what product can be imported from which
market?
d. Understand, the meaning behind complex KPIs – How do they impact businesses and policies?

OFFERING?
e. Understand, trade barriers that exist in different markets.
f. Have a consolidated view of the Micro and Macro indicators of every market – Thus defining effective
trade strategies.
g. Have access to numerous KPIs that are used internationally by Trade Consultants.
h. Create Trade Reports for countries and Products.
i. Predict – What might happen?
j. Prescribe – What to do next?

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BUSINESS VALUES

A. Strengthening Trade Strategy

Trade is a negotiation game hence governments/trade bodies need to be well-prepared when they sit
at the negotiation table. It is crucial, thus, to have near-to-perfect information about their own trading
patterns and the trade patterns of partner countries. This helps them to get the most out of trade
deals. Trade Foresight aids in this aspect by providing up-to-date data and help them in keeping an
upper-hand.

B. Tackling Trade Barriers

In present times, tariffs are usually low as being a WTO member ensures
lower tariffs. However, with the advent of different quality standards
imposed on food items, surgical instruments, life-saving drugs etc. there
has been a rise in non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade in goods and services.
Trade Foresight helps governments and enterprises alike to facilitate
evidence-based policy reform, focusing on NTBs.

C. Smarter Trade Decisions

Equipping SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) as well as individuals with the
tools and capabilities to make smarter business decisions, Trade Foresight
pitches in perfectly as a platform to help realize development in the trade
sector and ensure comprehensive trade strategies and decisions.
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 D. Encapsulating Value Chains
With the rise in global value chains, it is important that economies focus more on promoting trade
and opening borders. However, such actions are not always possible due to lack of trade facilitation
measures and infrastructure development. By providing governments/enterprises with the
necessary information and helping them forecast the benefits of investing in such development,
Trade Foresight facilitates in strengthening institutional infrastructure for regional and global
integration.

E. Maximizing Revenue
Products that an economy is better at producing than others is its comparative advantage.
Therefore economies need to be well aware about the goods they specialize in and the ones they
should invest for import to ensure minimal losses in tariff revenue. In order to determine
comparative advantage, economy needs accurate and timely data as well as complex computations.
Trade Foresight helps in providing both, to help governments save time and focus on creating
efficient and effective policies.

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 CREATING
FF.. PUBLIC-PRIVATE SYNERGY
The inclusion of SMEs perspective in policy-making process is crucial in linking them to global
value chains and enhancing their competitiveness. By providing micro-level data to the
governments and by providing government policies to SMEs, Trade Foresight helps in bridging
this gap between public and private sector and thus, helps both in achieving their respective
goals and perform at optimal level. Furthermore, Trade Foresight maintains database
regarding international standards applied to different products which helps SMEs stay
up-to-date and raise their product quality to the par.

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VALUE PROPOSITION
Trade Foresight is a one of its kind solution that unifies economy embellishing essentials by
providing revolutionary features:

A. WORLDWIDE TRADE DATA

Trade Foresight provides the ability to search for trade data from a wider horizon, like regional to granule
level, like specific industry of a given country. The data has been consolidated from multiple authentic
sources that include but not limited to UN Comtrade, Atlas MIT, World Bank, WITS, etc. to provide a
comprehensive analysis on numerous aspects of global trade.

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B. Performance Monitoring
Certain factors for trade hold great significance and should be monitored frequently in order to identify
which areas are lagging. Trade Foresight answers this issue by providing performance and trade
related indices, acceptable in international economics, including but not limited to
Herfindahl-Hirschman Product/Market Concentration Index, Market Penetration Index, Revealed
Comparative Advantage (RCA), Diversity/Ubiquity and Trade Complementarity Index. Each index is
responsive to the combination of regional counterparts and product that the user will define for a
selected year.

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C. Country Level Data Catalogue
: Trade Foresight provides a comprehensive view of details specific to any country. This country level
data catalogue entails social, demographic and economic indicators hence enabling users to have a
360-degree view of the desired country.

D. Country Analysis
The country-level analysis offers details of country’s social/demographic indicators which comprises of
details such as country’s population, its land area, GDP per capita, etc. The economic indicators highlight
over country’s economic complexity index, its current import/export value, trade balance, etc. The country
wide analysis also features an extensive measure of “Ease of Going Business” which assigns rank to
different countries on the bases of factors such as easiness in starting a business, resolving insolvency,
registering property, getting credit, etc.

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E. Industry Level Data Catalogue
Trade Foresight enables users to reach to granular-level of information for meaningful analysis. The
data can be drilled down from country level data to industry level data. Drilling down deeper into the
information supports in correct decision making.

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F. Industry Analysis
Providing granular level trade data pertaining to industry, empowers users to have a control over analytics.
The industry analysis provides statistics about the market potential of business, product and services. This
provides SMEs with valuable information such as the market share of different importing countries in a
particular industry, global demand, top exporting and importing countries for that industry. Trade Foresight
further allows its users to drill-down into sub-industries and its share in main industry.

G. Product Level Data Catalogue

Trade Foresight also offers a single view platform where user can have detailed knowledge about every
possible aspect for any product being traded globally. It starts with an overview, highlighting major exporter
and importer and historical trend of its value being exported/imported in past years allowing users to carry
out detailed product-level analysis.
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H. Product Analysis
For SMEs to evaluate the potential of its product in the global market, Trade Foresight presents the
detailed product insights. The Product Analysis evaluates the current global demand for the product in
terms its import/export value, its growth and the top importing/exporting countries. Furthermore, a
detailed set of indices are presented via interactive visualization giving analytical view that derives
comparative information with detailed data sets and its historical trends for each product.

I. Build Your Own Visualizations:

Trade Foresight empowers its users to have
complete control over their analytics by allowing
them to build their your own visualizations,
enabling them to conclude ones decision. From
selecting a region, to choosing an industry and/or
product along with combination of other
variables/KPIs that the user aims to visualize on
predefined parameters and timeframe. Trade
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J. Trade Guide Wizard
A guided wizard to enable exporters and importer in finding the right product to export to certain market
or import from another market on the basis of sophisticated measures such as Revealed Comparative
Advantage and Landed Cost.

K. Self Service Analytics

Trade Foresight gives power to the users as well as to the business professionals to customize reports
according to their needs and requirements. This capability empowers users to have total control over
analytics, given the availibilty of proper data which is ensured by Trade Foresight’s authentic data
extraction processes from authentic and credible sources.

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L. Smart Text
“Smart Text” is the feature that allows the user to navigate to specific pre-defined links against the
country or products within in-text descriptions of analysis. It also enables descriptions about a product or
country to adapt accordingly with detailed trade related information.

M. Alerts And Notifications

The users can also receive alerts and notifications on the set benchmarks or peak variations, to keep
them informed so that risk and potential issues are minimized.

N. Mobility
Touch-optimized reports and dashboards put critical information at user’s fingertips no matter what their
location is. With Trade Foresight’s Mobile Analytics, complex analysis can be done on-the-go.

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O. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Trade Foresight’s facilitates its audience with wide library of KPIs allowing its users to get a
comprehensive analysis. This library includes but not limited to following subject, categorized into
five broad classes:

1. Measures of Diversification: 3. Market Analysis

• Diversity • Market Attractiveness Index
• Economic Complexity Index • Time to Export
• Herfindahl-Hirschman Market Concentration Index • Ease of Doing Business
• Ubiquity & Others • Market Access Index & Others

2. Macroeconomic Indicators: 4. Product Level Analysis

• GDP Per Capita • Revealed Comparative Advantage
• Exchange Rate • Product Complexity Index
• Foreign Direct Investment • Export Potential Index
• Consumer Price Index & Others • Export Performance Index & Others

5. Trade Related Indicators

• Export Value • Balance of Payment
• Import Value • Landed Cost & Others

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OTHER SALIENT FEATURES
• Deployed locally at the customer site, hence it is the only
platform that allows client to add their data sources as part
of the overall Data Warehouse.
• Provides futuristic solution, that predicts and prescribes,
future market trends and needs, while utilizing Artificial
Intelligence and Machine Learning based models.
• Ability to connect from potentially unlimited data sources
• Flexible to choose custom visualizations and reporting as
per the analyst’s requirement
• Row level security to ensure authorized access to data
• Secure caching of dashboards to enable easy offline
analysis
• Faster deployment giving quick ROI upon investments

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PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE
Power BI Dashboard

SEDA Data Source

SSAS Cube On-premise

Data Gateway

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Transform

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Data warehouse Servers
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