Trade Data

Multi-national Sources	Reporting Countries	Industry Codes **	Product Codes **	Freq	Time period
UNdata -Commodity Trade Statistics	countries world-wide	none	two digits or 6 digits of HS	annual	1988-->
UN Comtrade	countries world wide with trading partners	SITC 1 SITC R2 SITC R3	up to ten digits of HS	annual	1962-->
Direction of Trade via IMF eLibrary Data	countries world-wide with trading partners	none	none	annual monthly quarterly	mid 1980-->
OECD Trade by Commodity	OECD countries with 280+ trading partners	SITC R2 SITC R3	up to six digits of HS	annual	by HS 1990--> SITC R3 1993--> SITC R2 1961-90
OECD Monthly Trade Statistics	OECD countries with 280+ trading partners	none	none	annual	1955-->
World DataBank	countries world-wide	sector totals	none	annual	mid 1960's-->
International Financial Statistics via IMF eLibrary Data	countries world-wide	none	none	annual monthly quarterly	1948-->
FAOSTAT	by countries world-wide and, in matrix tables, by trading partner	none	in core tables primary commodity classification in TradSTAT by detailed commodity classification	annual	1961-->

U.S. Sources	Reporting Countries	Industry Codes **	Product Codes **	Freq	Time period
USA Trade Online	U.S. and its partners with option for port of entry/exit	none	up to ten digits of HS	annual, monthly	monthly, 2002--> annual, 1992-->
NBER	U.S. and its partners	SIC, STIC	TSUSA, HS	quarterly	SIC, 1958-2001 HS & SITC, 1972-2001 SIC 1972-2005 NAICS 1989-2005 HS 1989-2008
Foreign Trade Statistics	U.S. and its partners with options by state	industry sector	up to ten digits of HS	annual, monthly	annual, 1960--> monthly, 1992-->
FT900, Trade in Goods and Services	U.S. summaries by month or annual	sector, SITC, NAICs	none	annual, monthly	annual, 1991--> monthly, 1994-->

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