Commodity Trade Statistics System, compiled by UNSTAT and produced in print as the International Trade Statistics Yearbook, UN Commodity Trade Statistics Series D and as the ITC Import Tabulation System. Data is searchable by a combination of reporting country, partner country, imports/exports, SITC code (from 1 to 5 digits levels), time period. Data has been collected since 1962, though under different versions of the SITC codes.
See also International Trade Statistics from WTO.
Available in a variety of formats including:
(a) UNCTAD gopher and on WWW via ITC: values of country imports and exports at 3 digit SITC Rev 3. Years vary, but usually 1991 to latest year. In a tabular display format (i.e. not immediately spreadsheet compatible). Available free
(b) Analysis tables: tables listing the major import/exports of a country and the countries which are major importers/exporters of specific commodities. Available on the ITC WWW site.
(c) Online via the UN International Computing Centre (UNICC): available on subscription and by direct dial only using a dedicated communications PC package (currently being upgraded to a Windows based version. Data can be downloaded in variety of formats, including coma delimited ascii for use in PC spreadsheets. Most recent data is available in the Harmonised codings.
(d) Trade Analysis System on Personal Computer (PC/TAS): CDRom produced by International Trade Center (ITC), UNCTAD/WTO. Current edition contains data for 71 industrialised and newly industrialising countries including Brazil, Chile, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Korean R, Macau, Malaysia, Martinique, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Singapore, Thailand, Venezuela. Data is at 1, 4 and 5 levels of SITC revision 3, and for the years 1991-1995. Data can be output in various spreadsheet formats.
(e) For purchase, on tape and disk.
(f) International Trade Information System (It-Is): telnet access to 42 countries trade data at SITC levels1-4. Available only on 2-year subscription.
(g) In print as the annual International Trade Statistics Yearbook and UNCTAD Commodity Yearbook. Also issued informally as yearly country volumes (these have greatest range of data, including direction of trade at commodity level).
(h) TRAINS CDRom: data on major importers/exporters for trade promotion purposes. See seaparate entry for details.