Trade in a Bottle

Trade in a Bottle is a living project — here are some directions we'd like to explore in the future:

1. Import and recalculation of longer historical data series
   Extending the database further back in time to enable multi-year comparisons and trend analysis.
2. Analysis of changes in the number of bottlenecks over time
   Tracking how bottleneck counts evolve year-on-year — are dependencies growing, shrinking, or shifting between partners?
3. More predefined Critical Goods lists
   Adding additional curated lists (e.g. national strategic mineral lists, defence-related goods, green-transition inputs) so users can quickly apply different lenses.
4. User-defined extreme bottleneck thresholds
   Allowing each user to personalise the share and value thresholds that define an “extreme bottleneck” (currently fixed at ≥ 80% share and ≥ 10 mln USD).
5. Incorporating domestic production data
   Taking into account a country’s own output of a given good to assess how critical a particular import flow really is for the economy.
6. Downstream value-chain impact assessment
   Analysing how a bottleneck in one imported input propagates through subsequent stages of value chains, amplifying or mitigating the risk.