Sustainable Timber Information Exchange

Vision

Mission

Aims

1. collect, monitor, visualise, disseminate, and exchange data on international trade flows of timber and wood products;
2. encourage greater accuracy in national and international monitoring on international trade flows and wood products by progressively expanding coverage of reporting countries in the trade data;
3. introduce additional metrics for monitoring responsible trade; and
4. develop complementarity globally with other providers of international trade flows of timber and wood products.

About

Scope

• STIX currently provides access to data on timber products trade as reported by the statistical agencies of 46 countries including nearly all the world’s largest exporters and importers. Together these countries are estimated to account for at least 90% of the total value of global timber products trade.
• Data is provided for all products listed in chapters 44 (wood), 47 (pulp) and 48 (paper) and wood-based furniture in chapter 94 of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) .
• Monthly or annual data can be accessed for either the import or export flows of reporting countries.
• Data is provided at the highest level of product detail (at HS 8-digit or 10-digit level depending on reporting country).
• The start date for all data in the STIX database is January 2015 and the end date is the most recent monthly data published by the statistical agency of the reporting country.

Why STIX?

• STIX makes the most recent data to be readily available and freely accessible in a consistent and immediately useable format.
• STIX is unique in allowing trade monitoring as close to real time as possible. Monthly data is provided for all trading countries, typically no more than 3 months after trade occurred.
• STIX converts all value data into US dollars and Euros using exchange rates current at the time of the transaction to address inconsistency in reporting units.
• STIX validates all the quantity data for EU countries using an algorithm to ensure unit values remain within reasonable bounds with obvious errors identified and removed.
• STIX procedures continue to improve the standardising of units to validate routines to improve the quality and consistency of quantity data for non-EU countries.
• STIX provides an intuitive and powerful interface allowing users to access specific data in bulk as far as possible, without limits.
• STIX does not assume the user has prior detailed knowledge of the HS system.
• STIX allows users to select and aggregate data for commercially meaningful product groups .
• Data can be easily downloaded in bulk at the highest level of product detail (at HS 8-digit or 10-digit level depending on reporting country).
• STIX compiles and harmonises data for a large number of reporting countries.
• STIX uses “mirror data” that can be accessed for those partner countries which do not themselves regularly report trade data.
• STIX provides simple visualisations allowing users to gain a quick insight into the most recent trade flow trends.
• STIX generates charts that can be customised and downloaded as png files.
• STIX trade flow data can be explored and downloaded as a csv file by selecting a combination of one or more reporting countries, partner countries, and product groups.

Public access

• Data may be freely extracted from the STIX database and used for any non-commercial application. Data should be attributed to 'The Sustainable Timber Information Exchange sourced from https://stix.global/'.

Source

• For EU member states, raw data is compiled from the Eurostat COMEXT bulk download facility . For non-EU timber trading countries, raw data is sourced from Business and Trade Statistics Ltd a UK-based company.