The UN COMTRADE Database is maintained by the DESA/UN Statistics Division. It provides detailed imports and exports statistics in goods and services reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries/areas since 1962. It is considered the most comprehensive online trade database available, with tens of billions of data points.
To start, check out these user guides.
What are the features? | An overview #
- New look and intuitive design
- New 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 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 #
What’s new in UN Comtrade+ – YouTube
- New data: 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 and (forthcoming – additional subscription) access to Data Lake.
- More powerful data API options: Powered by Azure API Management for reliability and scalability. Built-in developer portal.
- Comtrade Trend: real-time analytics of recently 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
- New 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.
- New 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