How do you access CEPII BACI data?

CEPII BACI is labeled “Registration required” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.

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CEPII BACI — Reconciled Bilateral Trade (HS-6)

Name: CEPII BACI — Reconciled Bilateral Trade (HS-6)
Creator: CEPII (France)

CEPII BACI is used for cleaned bilateral trade-value research datasets at product level.

Registration requiredCore referenceVery large

trade international

Host / institution

CEPII · CEPII (France)

Geography

~200 countries including India, HS-6 product

Time coverage

From ~1995 (release-dependent)

Update frequency

Periodic releases (lags Comtrade ~1–2 years)

What this is best for

Academic gravity / network trade work needing reconciled India bilateral HS-6 flows

Main limitations

Not official Indian customs; lags live Comtrade; registration / license terms apply

Quick answers

Short research-facing answers derived from this catalog record.

What is CEPII BACI used for?: Academic gravity / network trade work needing reconciled India bilateral HS-6 flows
How do you access CEPII BACI data?: CEPII BACI is labeled “Registration required” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.
What geography and time does CEPII BACI cover?: Geography: ~200 countries including India, HS-6 product. Time coverage: From ~1995 (release-dependent).
What are the main limitations of CEPII BACI?: Not official Indian customs; lags live Comtrade; registration / license terms apply

Background & previous rounds

BACI builds on UN Comtrade by reconciling exporter and importer declarations so each bilateral flow appears once. Widely used in academic trade research when raw Comtrade mirror discrepancies matter. Pair with Comtrade for latest years and DGCIS for India-official totals.

Guides for using this data

Official portals, user guides, codebooks, and tutorials for access and analysis.

1 link

OfficialCEPII BACI database pagewww.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37

Variables4

Representative fields from CEPII materials (confirm full dictionary on the official portal). Representative fields for the page table — verify the full dictionary on the official site.

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Name / code	Description	Group
exporter i→j exports	Exporter i→j exports	Representative fields
HS-6 product	HS 6 product	Representative fields
value and quantity	Value and quantity	Representative fields
reconciled reporter/partner flows	Reconciled reporter/partner flows	Representative fields

Formats

research extracts · HS-6 bilateral files

Technical tags

reconciled bilateralHS-6research database

Example uses

India product-space / export sophistication; bilateral trade networks

Research and articles using this data

Verified examples that analyze, reuse, introduce, or visualize this dataset. Search matches without evidence are not published here.

3 verified sources

Scholarly works3

Journal articleAnalyzes data
Network Analysis of World Trade using the BACI-CEPII Dataset
Luca De Benedictis, Silvia Nenci, Gianluca Santoni · et al. · Global Economy Journal · 2014
Analyzes CEPII BACI data in the context of: "Network Analysis of World Trade using the BACI-CEPII Dataset".
Journal articleAnalyzes data
Network Analysis of World Trade Using the BACI-CEPII Dataset
Luca De Benedictis, Silvia Nenci, Gianluca Santoni · et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2014
Analyzes CEPII BACI data in the context of: "Network Analysis of World Trade Using the BACI-CEPII Dataset".
Journal articleAnalyzes data
Figure 8 from: Gnidchenko A (2023) Bargaining power, product differentiation, and currency patterns in intra-BRICS trade. BRICS Journal of Economics 4(3): 285-299. https://doi.org/10.3897/brics-econ.4.e102638
Andrey Gnidchenko · 2023
Analyzes CEPII BACI data in the context of: "Figure 8 from: Gnidchenko A (2023) Bargaining power, product differentiation, and currency patterns in intra-BRICS trade. BRICS Journal of Economics 4(3): 285-299. https://doi.org/10.3897/brics-econ.4.e102638".

Scholarly checked:: 10 Sept 2026
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Pairs well with

Many Indian data problems need survey + administrative combinations.