Such regional characteristics put clear marks on national carbon emission inventories. Though relatively modest in absolute terms, the amount of “carbon trade", measured as carbon emissions embodied in international trade flows, relative to national emissions is larger in several ASEAN countries than in China or India. In other words, international trade plays more important a role for ASEAN countries as a source of carbon emissions when compared with the world's two most populous countries. This reflects the pattern of trade specialisation in ASEAN countries; they tend to import more emission-intensive final products (both durable and non-durable goods) in exchange for supplying intermediate products.