International Trade Data

International Trade Data

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Table of Contents

1. Utilities

2. NBER Data

A. Penn World Tables

B. Trade and Immigration Dataset

C. Import data

D. Manufacturing Productivity Database.

3. Tariff Data

4. Useful Gravity Model Data

5. Trade Price Data

6. Goods Classification

A. Rauch Product Differentiation Codes

7. 1997 Commodity Flow Survey

Utilities:

Some of the data are compressed and combined using UNIX utilities. Some of these utilities are avialable for PCs.
  • Tar is a utility that combines many files in one file.
    • Files combined using Tar will generally have ".tar." in their name.
  • Zip is then generally used to compress files.
    • Files compressed using Zip will generally have a ".z", ".gz" or ".Z" in their name.

NBER Data

Penn World Tables

Version 5.5

Version 5.6

Trade and Immigration Dataset

Unix Compress (of ASCII) (739k) Contains only the data.

Import Data

Manufacturing Productivity Database

Tariff Data

The ULTIMATE Trade Barrier Catalog!
  • 1999 edition
    • Download: HTS Basic Edition in WordPerfect 5.0 format (1.5MB)
  • 1998 edition
    • Download: HTS Basic Edition in WordPerfect 5.0 format (1.6MB)
    • Download: HTS Basic Edition plus First Supplement in WordPerfect 5.0 format (1.6MB)
  • 1997 edition
    • Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect 5.1 format (1,256,742 bytes)
    • Download: HTS file #2 in WordPerfect 5.1 format (357,063 bytes)
  • 1996 edition
    • Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect 5.0 format (643,511 bytes)
    • Download: HTS file #2 in WordPerfect 5.0 format (967,718 bytes)
    • Download: HTS file in ASCII format, compressed using UNIX GNUZip. (564,649 bytes)
  • Notes
    • The WordPerfect versions of the data are in a really akward format. I am in the process of improving their read/useability.
    • Please see the web page for the ITC if you need more information.
    • Download: my own extract of the US 1996 HS MFN tariffs. In ASCII format (262k).

Useful Gravity Model Data:

  • Distance Measure - provides the Great Circle distance between capital cities. (562k)
  • Contiguity - lists all countries that have a common land border.
  • Languages - lists the primary language for 178 countries.

International Price Data

I have pulled some of the data off of the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and reformatted it. The files that the BLS provides are not very conveniently formatted. I hope that you find these files easier to use.

Last updated: 2/10/96
If you need more recent data, please access the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site.
  • Trade prices by SITC R3
  • Import Prices
  • Export Prices
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  • Trade prices by "End Use" Category
  • Import Prices
  • Export Prices
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  • Trade prices by Harmonized System
  • Import Prices
  • Export Prices

Rauch Classification of Goods

  • Download: This file contains a categorization of SITC Rev. 2 industries according to three possible types: differentiated products, reference priced, or homogeneous goods.
  • Description of file
  • Column 1: 4-digit SITC code
  • Column 2: "Conservative" classification
  • Column 3: "Liberal" classification
  • Coding Scheme
  • w=goods traded on an organized exchange (homogeneous goods)
  • r=reference priced
  • n=differentiated products
  • Source: Rauch, James E. "Networks Versus Markets in International Trade," Journal of International Economics 48(1) (June 1999): 7-35.

1997 Commodity Flow Survey

link
The public version of the 1997 Commodity Flow Survey data is poorly organized, and difficult to work with. In this file the data is organized better so that it can be used more broadly.
Click here for a documentation of the data
This file is a courtesy of:
Russell Hillberry
Research Division, Office of Economics, USITC