2008 Trade Yearbook, Volume I - Trade by country now available

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:12:36 GMT

Volume I of the 2008 International Trade Statistics Yearbook provides an overview of international merchandise trade in 2008 and data for a total of 173 countries (or areas) on imports and exports by commodity and trading partner with 2008 data provided for 77 countries (areas), representing approximately 61% of world trade of 2008.

Background: The 2008 International Trade Statistics Yearbook (2008 ITSY) is new and different from previous editions as it has been re-designed and its two volumes will be published separately. The 2008 ITSY 2008, Volume I - Trade by country has been completed in mid of June 2009 (instead of in December) in order to allow for an early release of an overview of international merchandise trade in 2008 and for a much earlier publication of the 2008 country (area) data available on UN Comtrade.The presentation of the information on individual countries (or areas) in Volume I has been re-designed. Instead of detailed tables, now so called country trade profiles show an analytical and condensed view of a country’s trade performance by using graphs, overview tables and descriptive text. For more detailed data users are requested to go directly to UN Comtrade (http://comtrade.un.org/db/default.aspx) which is the source of the information presented in the country trade profiles.

The 2008 ITSY, Volume II - Trade by commodity will be, as previously, completed end of December as more complete data is required for showing detailed information of trade by commodity.

The full electronic (pdf) version of this publication is expected to become available in early July 2009; the printed publication might become available by end of 2009. Please contact the United Nations Sales and Marketing Section at E-mail: publications@un.org or check on the internet at: http://unp.un.org.

The 2008 ITSY, Volume I has been made available in its parts at http://comtrade.un.org/pb/.

International Trade Statistics Yearbook 2005,2006

admin — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:38:55 GMT

Yearbook 2005 and 2006 are available online as downloadable pdf files at http://comtrade.un.org/pb

Notes:
- Not yet available reporters were estimated using extrapolation and/or mirror statistics.
- Commodity pages are available in 3 digit SITC Rev.3

Commodity Trade Statistics Publications

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:34 GMT

All UNSD Commodity Trade Statistics Publications are listed at http://comtrade.un.org/kb/article.aspx?id=10173. Some of them are free to download and others can be obtained from UN Sales web site.

Trade Publications

2008 Trade Yearbook, Volume I - Trade by country now available

International Trade Statistics Yearbook 2005,2006

Commodity Trade Statistics Publications