The most common quantitative restrictions covered over $8 trillion of trade value since 2017

Cumulative trade value covered by selected quantitative restrictions, billions of dollars, 2017–May 2025

Notes: Data are 2019 UN Comtrade data cumulated by country and the type of quantitative restriction. Data are organized by announcement date. Amount of trade affected (in billions of dollars) are based on HS six-digit UN Comtrade data for 2019 for those HS codes identified by the Global Trade Alert. For the EU plus UK, only the following countries are covered owing to data availability: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, France, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Source: New Industrial Policy Observatory, Global Trade Alert, May 2025.Download image