Fig. 1: Time trends of the global trade of the 46 highly hazardous chemicals analysed in this study among all countries.
From: Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals
a,b, Trade volumes by chemical (a) and net imports by geographic region (b) of highly hazardous chemicals. Net import = import − export. Note that only the top four (or three) chemicals or regions/countries are shown; others are all grouped into ‘others’. The data between 2004 and 2006 are not shown here because large parts of the global trade of the listed chemicals during this period were not recorded (or were separately recorded) in the UN Comtrade database, but they are included in the estimated total global trade reported in the main text.
