Comtrade Features

- Data availability   Availability of data depends on in what classification and when comtrade data are reported by countries. Comtrade have all reported data in their original classification and converted data (from original one) to all possible classifications. For example: Country X reported 1997 data in HS88, thus comtrade will stored X's 1997 data in HS88, SITC.3, SITC.2 and SITC.1. Go to here to view loaded data.     - Data Download   Comtrade guest couldn't download. However, registered user could download data in text file (using CSV format). User could also be assigned the maximum number of records that can be downloaded. The site licenses users will have unlimited number of records for downloading. User can download in two ways: direct mode or batch mode. The direct mode gives the data immediately but only suitable for a simple and small query (no groups and less than 150 thousands records). More complex query and huge data download needs to use batch mode (unattended download, the link to the compressed result file will be sent via email) Maximum records shown in Account Info page:     - Data Pricing   Please go to Subscription Prices. We also keep track of download data in Data Download History page.     - Data Restriction   Comtrade is capable for enforcing data restriction for certain users. For examples: User X is assigned Trade With US Only. See screen snapshot below: Thus, user X could only view trade data that has US as reporter or US as partner. If X wants to see trade between France and Sweden, he will get nothing. This restriction could be defined in any possible combinations of commodities, reporters, partners, years, trade flows, filtering by trade value, etc .... By default, all public users get the "Normal View" restriction. This view lets access to all comtrade data except the data reported by Taiwan, Province of China due to political reasons. However, at the trading partner side, Taiwan is included in partner "Asia Other, not elsewhere specified" (Code 490).