Trade by Commodity by Country (e.g. wool trade between New Zealand and Australia)
These two resources provide trade statistics (imports, exports and sometimes re-exports) by commodity by trade partners. They are the most detailed of the resources providing commodities statistics.
- UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
UN COMTRADE(United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database) has over 140 reporter countries providing annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries. UN COMTRADE is the largest depository of international trade data. It contains well over 1.1 billion data records. Commodities are classified according to SITC (Rev.1 from 1962, Rev.2 from 1976 and Rev.3 from 1988), the Harmonized System (HS) (from 1988 with revisions in 1996 and 2002) and Broad Economic Categories (BEC). Time series of data for reporter countries starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year.
- FAOSTAT
FAOSTAT, from the Food and Agriculture Organization, includes trade statistics on aggregate agriculture trade between countries and trade in individual cereal crops between partner countries.
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Trade by Commodity (e.g. total wool exports from New Zealand)
In addition to the resources described above, the following also provide either total trade by commodity or total trade by trade partner, but not trade for individual commodities by partner countries.
- Direction of Trade Statistics
This print publication from the International Monetary Fund presents, for 161 countries, figures on the total value of merchandise imports or exports, by trade partners for a range of years, and also trade flows between major areas of the world. Each volume includes some data for the preceeding 7 years.
• Location(s): TC Magrath Library, TC Wilson Library Gov Pub: Quarto HF91 .D5x
- UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics on CD-ROM
The UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Handbook of Statistics on CD-ROM provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data going back to 1950 for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings.
Subjects covered include:
-International merchandise trade values, trends and regional trade zones;
-Export and import structure by products and by regions of origin and destination;
-Volume and terms of trade indices;
-Commodity prices and indices.
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
- World Trade Organization Statistics Database
The World Trade Organization Statistics Database allows you to retrieve statistical information from 1948- in the following ways:
-The Trade Profiles section provides predefined information leaflets on the trade situation of members, observers and other selected economies;
-The Time Series section allows an interactive data retrieval of trade statistics. Available data sets include merchandise trade by commodity group from 1980- for individual countries.
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Trade by Country
In addition to the resources described above, the following resources provide trade totals for individual countries and regions. They sometimes provide detail by trade partners.
- WDI Online
WDI (World Development Indicators) Online contains statistics for over 550 indicators from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Subjects include: social welfare, economies, natural resources, and the environment. Data may not be available for all years for all countries. A user guide can be found at http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1802.
- UNIDO Industrial Demand-Supply Balance Database on CD-ROM
This UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) database contains annual time-series data (1980-) on manufacturing in current US dollars on the following items:
- Domestic output
- Total imports
- Total exports
- Apparent consumption
The statistics are presented by country/country group, industry and year.
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
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Trade in Services by Country
Services statistics are much more limited than commodities - below are the best sources for finding them.
- World Trade Organization Statistics Database
The World Trade Organization Statistics Database allows you to retrieve statistical information from 1948- in the following ways:
-The Trade Profiles section provides predefined information leaflets on the trade situation of members, observers and other selected economies including general services trade statistics;
-The Time Series section allows an interactive data retrieval of trade statistics, specifically of overall services, transportation and travel services trade statistics..
- UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics on CD-ROM
The UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Handbook of Statistics on CD-ROM provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data going back to 1950 for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings.
Subjects covered include:
-Trade in services: total trade and trade by sector.
• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
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United States Trade Statistics
- TradeStats Express
Use this resource when you want graphical representations of US trade information. Coverage is 1989- and several different printing and download options are available.
- U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights
The U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights web site provides data on U.S. international trade in goods and services as far back as 1960. Emphasis is on goods trade: aggregate exports and imports, U.S. commodity and country/regional trade balances, and shifts in the commodity composition of U.S. exports and imports with major trading partners and regions.
- U.S. Import & Export Price Indexes
This site contains statistics on changes in the prices of nonmilitary goods and services traded between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Coverage goes as far back as the mid-1980s.
- U.S. International Transactions Accounts Data
This part of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) website contains U.S. international transactions data, such as imports, exports and direct investments from 1960-. Clicking on a table name will open a table that users may customize by date, content and format.
- USA Trade Online
Provides export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities. The data is presented in the Harmonized Tariff Classification System with coverage from 1992-.
[Resource no longer available]
- USDA Trade Data
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) offers several different databases for data on international agricultural trade. These databases are maintained by FAS and other U.S. government agencies. Coverage varies widely and some statistics can be found in print publications back to the 1920s or even earlier.
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Classification Codes
There are several different classification codes in use for commodities and one for services. The primary classifications used are (HS) Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), SITC (Standard International Trade Classification) and, for North America, NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System).
- International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC)
A standard classification of economic activities arranged so that entities can be classified according to the activity they carry out. The categories of ISIC at the most detailed level (classes) are delineated according to what is, in most countries, the customary combination of activities described in statistical units. The groups and divisions, the successively broader levels of classification, combine the statistical units according to the character, technology, organization and financing of production.
- Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), Revision 3
The SITC is used for compiling international trade statistics on all merchandise entering international trade, and to promote international comparability of international trade statistics. The commodity groupings of SITC reflect (a) the materials used in production, (b) the processing stage, (c) market practices and uses of the products, (d) the importance of the commodities in terms of world trade, and (e) technological changes.
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