New case study: international trade in furniture.
A new analytical panel on international trade in furniture and parts, developed with MAGIC, has been published in the case studies section. The publication examines the recent evolution of this sector, with an emphasis on the United States market and changes among its main suppliers.
The analysis shows that, between 2015 and 2024, United States furniture imports increased in value, while trade tensions and tariffs applied to China contributed to a reconfiguration of supply chains. In this context, China lost market share in the United States, while other suppliers, such as Viet Nam, Mexico and Thailand, gained market share.
The infographic also highlights Mexico’s strong integration with the United States furniture market and warns about the possible effects of new tariff measures on competitiveness, employment, investment and regional supply chains. The study underscores the importance of diversifying markets, adding greater value and strengthening regional cooperation.
We invite you to explore, download and share this new panel (Only in Spanish):
International trade in furniture.
Explore MAGIC data availability in the new interactive table.
A new interactive table is now available in the support materials section — user manual and reference material — making it easier to identify the information available in MAGIC.
The table shows the years available in the system by reporting country and group of reporting countries. For trade in goods, it includes information corresponding to the profiles and competitiveness modules; for modes of transport, it presents the data available in the trade charges module.
With this update, consulting the availability of information in MAGIC is now more agile and straightforward. We invite you to explore the new interactive table at the following link:
MAGIC: information available by reporting country and year.
New competitive analysis dashboards 2017-2021.
The support materials – case studies web Magic’s section has published three new competitive analysis panels that show the export competitiveness
of Central America, Mexico and the United States partners in those markets. The panels show the exporters who gained and decreased their
market share and also the imported products with the highest and lowest demand during 2017-2021, in those markets. The dashboards also display the evolution of Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama’s market share in Central America, Mexico and the United States markets, from
2012-2021, as well as the competitiveness of their top 20 exported products.
We invite you to explore, download and share these new competitive analysis panels.
The new MAGIC software expands its export competitiveness analysis to Mexico and the European Union markets.
The new Module to Analyse the Growth of International Commerce (MAGIC) has been renewed, keeping its primary features to analyse the ex-post export competitiveness.
The new MAGIC provides bilateral trade profiles, competitiveness analysis, and data on tariffs, duty rates, and other costs related to commerce, for some markets—all of these through a
new interactive web platform.
Now, the new MAGIC offers trade data on the Central American markets, the United States, Mexico, and the European Union country markets. It means access to data on all products traded in 36 different
markets, with all their trade partners, since 1990 (and since 1994 for the Central American countries). Now it is possible to generate reports by country or by a group of countries, and by economic
sector or by product, at a product disaggregation level up to six digits for the Harmonized System, and up to ten numbers for the United States. In sum, the new MAGIC has more than 250 million trade
records available by several charts, figures and maps.
Through the new MAGIC, ECLAC provides a powerful trade analysis tool for governments, institutions, organisms, enterprises, students, and civil society with no cost. To get access to MAGIC, you
must sign up through this (newmagic.cepal.org).
Additionally, users can find diverse support materials to get the best of MAGIC on its new
web page (www.cepal.org/magic).
For further information about MAGIC, please contact the Industry and International Trade Unit of the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, at
comercioeindustria@cepal.org o magic@cepal.org