🚢 Trade & Business

Curated by Vinod Kumar Jain & Amit Jain · free to browse · updated 2026-07-05

Trade & Business is All Frontier Global's registry of the working global economy — 526 free trade agreements, 158 trade corridors, HS codes and commodities, verticals and sub-verticals, ports, SEZs, and trade bodies, all cross-linked and free to read. Each FTA page states parties, coverage, and tariff treatment; each corridor traces the route goods actually move along, port to port. Harmonized System codes anchor the product taxonomy, tying commodities to the flows and factsheets around them, while 50 verticals resolve into 65 sub-verticals so a sector question lands on the right shelf. Practical guides answer the two questions exporters ask first — how to export to a country and how to import from one — country by country. Alongside these sit 52 working ports, 31 special economic zones, 1,366 trade bodies, active trade mandates, and current sanctions frameworks. Nothing is paywalled and nothing is speculative: it is a structured reference for anyone routing a shipment, checking a duty, or mapping where a supply chain can go next.

Trade & Business holds the estate's working-economy registry — free trade agreements, the corridors goods move along, industry verticals down to commodities, the Harmonized System universe, ports and special economic zones, trade-body profiles, export and import guides, mandates and sanctions references. Curated by Vinod Kumar Jain & Amit Jain · All Frontier Global. Reviewed 10 August 2026 · Sections grow as the library grows.

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FTAs536 pagesOne page per free-trade agreement or CEPA, covering 526 trade deals.Corridors2,952 pagesTrade-corridor pages mapping route-level flows between markets, 158 corridors in all.Routes11 pagesTrade-route pages.Blocs48 pagesEconomic-bloc profiles covering 75 regional and trade groupings.Verticals60 pagesIndustry-vertical hubs, roughly 50 sector pages organising trade by industry.Vertical16 pages16 singular vertical pages at /vertical/<slug>/ representing industry sectors in the graph.Sub-verticals97 pagesGranular product and sub-sector nodes, 65 sub-verticals beneath the industry verticals.Commodities50 pagesHS-coded commodity pages, roughly 51 tradeable-goods nodes.Hs Universe1,366 pages1,366 HS-code pages mapping Harmonized System tariff classifications across the trade graph.Ports568 pagesMaritime-gateway profiles covering roughly 52 ports worldwide.SEZs30 pagesSpecial Economic Zone profiles, roughly 31 free-zone and SEZ pages.Trade Bodies Pages290 pagesTrade-body / authority profile pages (chambers, councils, promotion bodies).Export To65 pages65 export-destination guide pages covering how to export to specific markets.Import From65 pages65 import-origin guide pages covering how to import from specific markets.Mandates128 pagesLive trade-mandate pages (buy/sell).Sanctions3 pagesSanctions reference pages.Corridor records15 sourced recordsFully sourced India corridor records — agreements, official trade values, mechanics, gaps.

Frequently asked

What is a trade corridor, and how do I use one here?

A trade corridor is a defined route goods travel between an origin and a destination, spanning the ports, borders, and modes along the way. All Frontier Global documents 158 corridors, each linking the countries, ports, and commodities involved. Use one to see how a shipment physically moves and which agreements and bottlenecks apply en route.

How do FTAs and HS codes work together on this platform?

An FTA sets the tariff and rules-of-origin treatment between member economies, while an HS code identifies the exact product being traded. Cross-referencing the two tells you the duty a specific good faces under a specific agreement. The platform links all 526 FTAs to the Harmonized System taxonomy so you can trace a commodity to its treatment without leaving the page.

Are the export-to and import-from guides free, and what do they cover?

Yes — every guide is free and unpaywalled, like the rest of the platform. Each one is organized by country and walks through the practical steps of exporting to or importing from that market, including relevant tariffs, mandates, and sanctions considerations. They connect directly to the FTA, corridor, port, and HS-code pages that support each trade route.

Trade

Blocs, corridors, FTAs and sector profiles.

🤝 Trading blocsRegional blocs — membership and what they unlock.🛤️ Trade corridorsKey bilateral routes and what moves along them.📜 FTAsFree-trade agreements, tariffs and rules of origin.🛢️ CommoditiesTraded goods, exchanges and price context.🏭 VerticalsSector-by-sector trade profiles.🔧 Sub-verticalsNiche sub-sector breakdowns.🏛️ Trade bodiesChambers, councils and export-promotion bodies.📊 MarketsIndices, market data and economic signals.🗂️ Intel directoriesEleven data directories — ports, cities, institutions, trade bodies, the lexicon, FAQs, FTA records and more, 5,979 sourced rows.