UN Comtrade Reference Tables
Commodity and Country
You can download the references for commodities (HS or SITC versions) and countries in Microsoft Excel , TXT , Microsoft Access formats from the below zip file:
Please note that the following are the variable descriptions for the commodities files:
CmdCode: Commodity code
CmdDesc: Commodity description
IsLeaf: Basic code without children
Parentcode: High level of that commodity code
pfDesc: Commodity classification
(H3=HS2007, H2=HS2002, H1=HS1996, H0=1992, S4=SITC.4, S3=SITC.3, S2=SITC.2, S1=SITC.1, BE=BEC)
The following are the variable descriptions for country files:
Cty Code: Country code
Cty Name English: Country name in English
Cty Fullname English: Country full name in English
Cty Abbrevation: Country name abbreviated
Cty Comments: Applicable comments regarding country
ISO2-digit Alpha: ISO 2 digit alpha code
ISO3-digit Alpha: ISO 3 digit alpha code
Start Valid Year: Year starting for country code validation
End Valid Year: Year ending for country code validation
The references are also available as Web Services (see related article below).
Regime Codes
1 Imports
2 Exports
3 Re-Exports
4 Re-Imports
Quantity Unit
1 No Quantity - -
2 Area in square metres m²
3 Electrical energy in thousands of kilowatt-hours 1000 kWh
4 Length in metres m
5 Number of items u
6 Number of pairs 2u
7 Volume in liters l
8 Weight in kilograms kg
9 Thousands of items 1000u
10 Number of packages u (jeu/pack)
11 Dozen of items 12u
12 Volume in cubic meters m³
13 Weight in carats carat
