PLAID with Carsten Brockhaus and Irene Iodice.
PLAID — plaid.julianhinz.com
PLAID (Product-Level AI-Derived Indicators Database) provides six product-level indicators for international trade at the HS 6-digit level, generated by an ensemble of frontier large language models.
Indicators
| Indicator | Categories | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rauch | w / r / n | Organised exchange, reference priced, or differentiated |
| BEC | capital / intermediate / consumption | Broad Economic Categories end-use classification |
| Perishability | 1–5 | Economic perishability scale with half-life estimate |
| Hazmat | true / false | GHS/IMDG dangerous goods flag |
| Microchip | true / false | Semiconductor or integrated circuit content |
| 3TG | true / false + mineral | Tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold conflict mineral exposure |
Coverage
All seven HS revisions: H0 (1992), H1 (1996), H2 (2002), H3 (2007), H4 (2012), H5 (2017), H6 (2022). Approximately 5,400 products per revision. Four-model ensemble with majority voting and uncertainty measures for each classification.
Access
- Interactive explorer & downloads: plaid.julianhinz.com (mirror: trade.ifw-kiel.de/PLAID)
- JSON API:
plaid.julianhinz.com/api/v0.1/{revision}/{code}.json - Code & replication: github.com/julianhinz/PLAID
Data is released under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT.
Last updated on April 16, 2026. © Julian Hinz 1987–2026.