International Trade by Commodity Statistics (2024)

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Keywords: commodity, manufactured goods, mineral, tobacco, statistics, exports, chemical products, transport equipment, SITC, crude materials, food and live animal, import, beverages

• SITC Revision 3

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and importsby partner countries and by commodity. Commodities are available at the most detailed level of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Revision 3, a statistical classification of the commodities entering external trade, designed to provide the commodity aggregates for purposes of economic analysis and to facilitate international comparisons of trade-by-commodity data. Revision 3 corresponds to the current international standard. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 1988 onwards.

• SITC Revision 2

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and importsby partner countries and by commodity. Commodities are available at the most detailed level of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Revision 2, a statistical classification of the commodities entering external trade, designed to provide the commodity aggregates for purposes of economic analysis and to facilitate international comparisons of trade-by-commodity data. Revision 2 corresponds to the previous international standard. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 1961 onwards.

• Harmonised System 2017

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and imports by partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification, of which Harmonized System 2017 is the most recent. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 2017 onwards.

• Harmonised System 2012

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and imports by partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 2012 onwards.

• Harmonised System 2007

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and imports by partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 2007 onwards.

• Harmonised System 2002

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and importsby partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification. This dataset uses Harmonized System 2002 expressing data in US dollars which are available from 2002 onwards.

• Harmonised System 1996: All commodities

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and importsby partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification based on the nature of the commodity. This dataset, focusing on all market commodities, uses Harmonized System 1996 expressing data in US dollars, which are available from 1996 onwards.

• Harmonised System 1988

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  This dataset contains values and quantities of exports and importsby partner countries and by commodity. The complex nature of the customs and statistical needs require a detailed commodity classification. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System, or HS), or extended versions based on HS, such as the Combined Nomenclature used by European Union countries, provide such classification based on the nature of the commodity. This dataset uses Harmonized System 1988 expressing data in US dollars, which are available from 1988 onwards.

• ITCS Exchange Rates

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  This dataset includes conversion factors used for International Trade by Commodity Statistics datasets. Exchange rates are expressed in US dollars per national currency unit and based on annual exchange rates. To convert trade data from US dollars into national currency, trade data in US dollars should be divided by this exchange rate. Data are available from 1961 onwards.

• International transport and insurance costs of merchandise trade - OECD

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  Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade (also referred to as CIF-FOB margins) are an important determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and most detailed cross-country sample of official national statistics on explicit CIF-FOB margins to date with estimates from an econometric gravity model, and using a novel approach to pool product codes across World Customs Organization Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature vintages, the OECD has developed a new Database on International Transport and Insurance Costs (ITIC) that aims to fill this gap. The Database shows that distance, natural barriers and infrastructure continue to play an important role in shaping regional (and global) value chains.

• Balanced merchandise trade statistics by CPA - OECD

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  The balanced merchandise trade database comprises international trade statistics where calculations have been made to reduce the asymmetries between import and export data. Differences arise from valuation (CIF for imports and FOB for exports), in partner country classification, in customs regimes, and in compilation and dissemination methodologies. Detailed statistics reported in different version of the Harmonised System are converted to the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) products to better align with National Accounts statistics, such as in national Supply-Use tables. Data are expressed in US dollars and are available from 2007 onwards.

• Merchandise Trade Price Index Database by CPA

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  Despite the growing importance of international trade, driven in large part by the rise of globalisation and the accompanying international fragmentation of production, the availability of statistics on price change in international merchandise trade at more granular level is still limited. To fill this data gap, the OECD has developed this new Merchandise Trade Price Index (MTPI) database using UN COMTRADE.