World Trade Monitor April 2024
Developments in global international trade and industrial production March 2024:
- World trade volume increased 1.5% month-on-month (growth was -1.1% in March, initial estimate -0.6%).
- World trade momentum was 1.2% (non-annualised; 0.3% in March, unchanged from initial estimate).
- World industrial production increased 0.4% month-on-month (having decreased 0.4% in March, initial estimate -0.3%).
- World industrial production momentum was 0.2% (non-annualised; 0.1% in March, initial estimate 0.2%).
The next release of the CPB World Trade Monitor is scheduled for 25 July 2024, 12:00 hours.
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Monthly brief CPB World Trade Monitor The monthly CPB World Trade Monitor is an instrument with which CPB monitors the development of world trade and is published on behalf of the European Commission. It takes two months before the figures are available. The next CPB World Trade Monitor for the reporting month of May 2024 will be published on July 25th. If you have any questions, please contact wtm@cpb.nl.
You can also read the CPB Background Document 'The CPB World Trade Monitor: technical description (update 2023)'. In September 2016 (starting with the July 2016 monitor) the WTM base year has been moved from 2005 to 2010. Clarification of the procedure and its outcomes is given in the downloadable appendix (CPB Memo 'Change of base year WTM').
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