Collection and Publication

• Detailed trade data collection. Trade data are collected from about 200 countries or areas and stored in various databases. For example, the branch maintains the world’s most comprehensive database on trade by commodity and partner country, called UN Comtrade which is made available to the public on the Internet. Dissemination of Comtrade is done via the International Trade Statistics Yearbook and the Statistical Yearbook.
• Other collections. The following aggregated data and indices are collected and made available via Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, Yearbooks, and on-line.
  • Aggregated trade data. Values of total exports, total imports as well as exports of manufactured goods and imports of fuel.
  • Index numbers. The index numbers of unit value/price, and volume (quantum) of total exports, total imports as well as exports of manufactured goods and imports of fuel.

Websites for dissemination of IMTS data

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb for UN Common Database

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs for the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics