I am looking for long-term time series on intra-EEC/intra-EU trade. I want to see how trade within the common market has developed since the 1950s and how the share of intra-community trade on total EEC/EU trade has evolved.
EUROSTAT only provides recent data (EU15 since 1990, EU28 since 2002, other small variations) and with a fixed EEC/EU composition. The WTO, in turn, provides longer time series (total trade since the 1940s, intra-EEC/EU trade since the 1980s), but still with a fixed EEC/EU composition. Do you know of any source which allows to quantify the evolution of trade within the European common market (evolving composition of the EEC/EU, current prices, euro or dollars, exports & imports of goods or current account)?
Thanks a lot for your assistance.
Best regards,
Dr Paolo Chiocchetti
Research Associate, University of Luxembourg