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After collapsing during the pandemic, this category of cross-border trade — covering tourism, finance, and software — rebounded to record highs by 2023.
Services trade covers non-physical cross-border exchanges like tourism, finance, and software, and it collapsed during the pandemic as international travel and in-person services halted. By 2023 it rebounded to record highs, driven by travel's return and continued growth in digitally delivered services exportable instantly online.
Barter trade means exchanging goods without money, an ancient, marginal practice unrelated to this modern category. Commodity trade means trading raw physical materials like oil or wheat, essentially the opposite of non-physical services trade.
The recovery highlights a shift where many countries increasingly earn income exporting expertise and digital products rather than relying solely on shipping physical manufactured goods.
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