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Welcome to UN Comtrade

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The UN COMTRADE Database is maintained by the DESA/UN Statistics Division. It provides detailed import and export statistics in goods and services reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries/areas since 1962. With tens of billions of data points, it is considered the most comprehensive online trade database available.

To start, check these user guides.

What are the features? | An overview #

  • Improved UI design
  • More data, more parameters
  • A more sophisticated and refined search
  • Ability to save searches and build custom groupings
  • More filtering options
  • Comtrade Labs
  • Comtrade Trend
  • Premium services (see subscription plan below)
  • Email notifications for data download/delivery completion
  • Mobile friendly (transformation of data into cards)
  • More powerful data API options
  • Single sign-on
  • More frequent social media notifications

Tell me more about the features of UN Comtrade #

  • More data breakdown: trade value in CIF and FOB, quantity in secondary unit codes, and gross weight. Further, tariffline data are made publicly available.
  • More parameters: mode of transport, 2nd partner country, customs procedure codes, more trade flows.
  • Premium services: including bulk and delivery download for millions of records.
  • More powerful data, data availability, metadata API options: Better reliability and scalability. Built-in developer portal.
  • Comtrade Trend: Analytics of recently collected and released datasets and the data that users are looking for on UN Comtrade
  • Comtrade Labs: innovative and experimental data visualizations by our subscribers using UN Comtrade data
  • Custom Groupings: Summarize the detailed trade data by providing custom groupings
  • A saving features: options to save search criteria and parameters for registered users
  • Large data sets emailed to your inbox: data extraction runs in the background when a data download is complete, a link to the dataset is sent to subscribers by email notification.
  • Mobile-friendly features: the transformation of data tables into data cards for easy viewing and sharing on mobile devices
  • Single sign-on: Use selected providers of single sign-on to login to UN Comtrade – no need to create a new account/password
  • More data availability option views: dashboard, recent releases, time series, and detailed views – to fit any needs