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  "slug": "gold-trade",
  "kind": "flow",
  "title": "Gold: the leading trade routes",
  "subtitle": "15 retained leading routes · 2024",
  "takeaway": "Canada → United Kingdom is the largest retained route. Displayed routes cover 35.8% of primary-line world trade.",
  "period": "2024",
  "unit": "USD",
  "publisher": "CEPII BACI via Commodity Origins",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commodityorigins.com/sources/",
  "attribution": "CEPII BACI; derived primary-HS-line corridor snapshot from Commodity Origins.",
  "retrievedAt": null,
  "vintage": "2026-10-10T22:48:06.733043+00:00",
  "method": "Ribbon widths represent USD value for the 15 retained leading exporter–importer routes. These represent 35.8% of primary-line world value (2182 total corridors). Node totals cover displayed routes only.",
  "notes": [
    "Selected primary HS line only, not all gold products or physical tonnage. Reporting year 2024; snapshot generated 2026-10-10. Acquisition date is not supplied.",
    "Other routes are omitted. The data export contains exactly the displayed routes; broader commodity coverage is in the linked retained snapshot."
  ],
  "explorer": "/patterns/trade-flows/",
  "rows": [
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      "place": "Canada",
      "code": "CAN",
      "destination": "United Kingdom",
      "destinationCode": "GBR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "34482219136.99999",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 5.867442008032663,
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    },
    {
      "place": "Switzerland",
      "code": "CHE",
      "destination": "China",
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      "period": "2024",
      "value": "25040652754",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "place": "United Arab Emirates",
      "code": "ARE",
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      "value": "16107248620.000002",
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      "place": "United Arab Emirates",
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      "place": "Hong Kong",
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      "place": "United States",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Japan",
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    },
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      "place": "South Africa",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Canada",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Switzerland",
      "code": "CHE",
      "destination": "Turkey (Türkiye)",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Switzerland",
      "code": "CHE",
      "destination": "United Arab Emirates",
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      "value": "7048746066",
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    }
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  "commodity": "gold",
  "topic": "Trade routes",
  "coveragePct": 35.77815697166517
}