Yes. It was down.  Now, problem has been solved.  

It refers only to free zones within the reporting country. Other free zones (outside reporting country) will be coded as country where they are located.

The most detailed data that UN Comtrade offers is the combination of: reporter, partner, commodity (up to 6 digits), year and trade flow. If you need to find more detailed information such as port of entry/exit or traders, you should contact Customs Department directly.

Valuation and Time of Recording definitely have some impact to the problems mentioned above. Other possibility is under-reporting of re-exports. Because of globalization, more and more goods are processed (minor or major) in different countries resulting in the increase of re-exports and re-imports. Point no.4 is correct to mention that there is ...

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1) Yes it is possible to import from itself (it's called re-imports). For further info, see: See http://comtrade.un.org/kb/article.aspx?id=10038 or go find International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts & Definitions Rev.2 http://comtrade.un.org/kb/article.aspx?id=10173 2) UN Comtrade does not provide option to keep the missing values. ...

Could you please post the selection criteria too? The codes that you mentioned are all 5 digits and HS do not have 5 digit codes. t Normally, if you open the text file in Excel, sometime, it truncates number zero, because it tries to converts them into number. Try to open the text file in text editor (notepad), you should see the original number.

Data Reference: South Africa 2007 received on 19 February 2008; published on 31 October 2008 Original South African data of commodity code ''080910'' was checked and yes it's big as mentioned. We have asked for further clarification to the data provider. When the revised data is available, it will be processed soon.

A Trade Map user has pointed out that South Africa's export quantities for apricot (HS 080910) looks too big in 2007 and he is right. This outlier quantity has also been taken into account in theaggregates at 4 and 2-digit level. I have checked the COMTRADE data and I have found the same quantities.