The Tracker includes FTAs, economic cooperation agreements, MoUs and Memorandum of Cooperations, CRM frameworks, and similar instruments — binding or not. Sub-national deals, digital economy agreements, and instruments not primarily about trade or economic cooperation are excluded.

The Tracker is compiled on a best-efforts basis from publicly available sources. Given the pace of recent trade diplomacy and the delay with which some agreements are announced or published, it is updated on a rolling basis to incorporate newly available texts and additional agreements as they are identified.

Provisions are coded across four substantive areas — Energy, Climate, Critical Raw Materials, and Heavy Industry, each divided into analytical subtopics.

A provision is coded only when it contains substantive operative content and may fall under more than one topic when it genuinely addresses several.

The coding process combines AI-assisted extraction with expert verification. AI was used to identify candidate provisions, draft summaries, and propose references, but the expert coder remained responsible for validating every coding decision against the agreement text.

Each entry records what an agreement provides, establishes, permits, or commits parties to do on a coded topic, with reference to the source text. The Tracker also flags notable tariff and market-access treatment relevant to those topics. It does not measure implementation, legal effect, or environmental impact, and is not a substitute for the authoritative agreement text.

Each entry is reviewed independently. Coding decisions are derived only from the text under review, including annexes, schedules, protocols, appendices, side letters, attachments, and tariff schedules where available.