Highlights :

• We harmonize Trade Unit Values, CEPII's database providing a world trade matrix of unit values for more than 230 countries and 5 100 products over the period 2000-2012.
• We associate each flow with a trade type (one-way trade, intra-industry trade in similar products or in differentiated products) and a price range (low, middle or high range).
• We show that world trade is still mainly inter-industry and concerns more and more middle-market products.

 Abstract :
We provide a systematic decomposition of world trade using a new database built on an harmonized version of Trade Unit Values, CEPII's database providing a world trade matrix of unit values for more than 230 countries and 5 100 products over the period 2000-2012. The decomposition allows to associate each flow with a trade type (one-way trade, intra-industry trade in similar products or in differentiated products) and a price range (low, middle or high range).
We show that world trade is still mainly inter-industry and concerns more and more middle-market products.

 Keywords : Unit Values | Trade Prices | Trade Types | Price Ranges

 JEL : F1, F6