Links
Here I collect a few link with publicly available data I find useful for teaching trade or for just find out interesting patterns...
International Trade Data
Bilateral Trade Flows
Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), International Monetary Fund: Bilateral trade data starting on 1960 (based on COMTRADE)
COMTRADE: Original Source for builateral data; download restrictions
Gravity and Cultural Variables
GeoDist (CEPII): Contains two Datasets: Geo_cepii.dta with geographical variables for each country, and dist_cepii.dta, with distance variables and a few measures of cultural similarity
Gravity (CEPII): gravity dataset for all world pairs of countries (1948-2006).GDP and populations obtained from World Bank Development Indicators (WDI)
Chile's Free Trade Agreements
UNIDO
http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx