The resources that are listed on this page are presented in two lists: one dealing with multi-national sources and one dealing with U.S. sources. The tables indicate whether data is reported by product or industry. For more information about the coding schemes used for reporting trade, see our guide to Trade Codes.

Note trade statistics can also appear within other resources that focus on either particular countries or industry sectors.

 

Multi-national Sources	Reporting Countries	Industry Codes	Product Codes	Frequency	Time period
UNdata -Commodity Trade Statistics	countries world wide	none	two digits or 6 digits of HS	annual	1988-most recent year reported
UN Comtrade	countries world wide with trading partners	SITC 1 SITC rev.2 SITC rev.3	up to ten digits of HS	annual	1962-most recent year reported
OECD Trade	OECD countries with 264 trading partners	SITC rev.2 SITC rev.3	up to six digits of HS	annual	1990 forward for HS 1961-1990 SITC rev1. 1993-forward SITC rev3.
Direction of Trade*	countries world-wide with trading partners	none	none	annual, monthly, quarter	mid 1948-current
WDI Online	countries world-wide	sector totals	none	annual	mid 1960's-current
International Financial Statistics -- (also on CD)	countries world-wide	none	none	annual, monthly, quarterly	1948-current
FAOSTAT (food and foresty commodities)	countries world-wide and, in the matrix tables, by trading partner	none	in core data tables by primary commodity classification   in TradSTAT by detailed commodity classification	annual	1990-current

 
 

U.S. Sources	Reporting Countries	Industry Codes	Product Codes	Frequency	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
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-

 

The World Bank offers maintains a list of trade statistics and databases that deatl with issues of trade protection, barriers, antidumping, and trade restriction measures.

 
 
* These two IMF products are both CD-ROM, you must visit EDS to use them:

• Direction of Trade Statistics, 1948 to present


• International Financial Statistics (IFS) 1948-present

EDS provides the following guides to using International Financial Statistics.

• IFS - A Guide to International Financial Statistics in EDS
• Documentation that includes the Introduction, indicator codes and geographic coverage taken from the CD-ROM.