Firecrawl Alexandria

UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org)

Name: UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org)
Creator: UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org)

UN Comtrade international merchandise and services trade statistics through the anonymous public API behind comtradeplus.un.org: trade value, quantity and weight by reporter, partner, flow and commodity (HS/SITC/BEC/EBOPS), national tariff lines, dataset availability and metadata, recent releases, world shares, MBS total-trade series and the reference code tables.

Try in Agent

Use UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org) for Data availability. Inspect the Alexandria inputs, ask for any missing required details, and return a small sample with sources.

Try UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org) now.

Choose an example or ask your own question.

What do you want to do with UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org)?

UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org)

TRY ASKING

1Request

periodstringRequired

Period(s): YYYY (annual) or YYYYMM (monthly); a comma-separated list and/or inclusive ranges (2012-2019, 201901-201906). At most 12 periods after expansion; each costs one upstream request.

reporter codestringRequired

UN M49 numeric reporter code(s), comma-separated (156 China, 842 USA, 276 Germany). Look codes up with reference_codes table=Reporters.

classificationstring

Product classification in the URL path: HS (as reported, any HS edition), H0-H6 (a specific HS edition), S1-S4 (SITC), BE/BE5 (BEC), EB/EB10/EB02/EBS (EBOPS, services).

cmd codestring

One commodity code: TOTAL, an HS/SITC/BEC/EBOPS code at any level (85, 8504, 850440), or an aggregate alias AG2/AG4/AG6 for every code at that digit level. Default TOTAL.

flow codestring

Trade flow code(s), comma-separated: M import, X export, RM re-import, RX re-export, MIP/XIP/MOP/XOP/MIF/XIF/DX/FM sub-flows. Omit for every flow.

partner codestring

Partner area code(s), comma-separated. 0 is World (the reporter's total); omit for a breakdown by every partner. Look codes up with reference_codes table=partnerAreas.

5 credits⌘

Codefollows the fields above

const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "comtradeplus-un-org",
    capability: "trade-statistics/trade_data",
    options: {
      cmd_code: "850440",
      flow_code: "M",
      partner_code: "0",
      period: "2019",
      reporter_code: "156",
    },
  },
});

2Response example

This is a sample shape. Press Run to see live data from UN Comtrade (comtradeplus.un.org).

{
  "count": 1,
  "observed_at_ms": 1792433616822,
  "periods": [
    {
      "count": 1,
      "period": "2019",
      "source_url": "https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156&period=2019&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&cmdCode=850440&includeDesc=true",
      "truncated": false
    }
  ],
  "records": [
    {
      "aggr_level": 6,
      "alt_qty": 2189054044,
      "alt_qty_unit_abbr": "u",
      "cif_value": 7111977093,
      "classification_code": "H5",
      "cmd_code": "850440",
      "cmd_desc": "Electrical static converters",
      "customs_code": "C00",
      "customs_desc": "TOTAL CPC",
      "flow_code": "M",
      "flow_desc": "Import",
      "fob_value": 0,
      "freq_code": "A",
      "gross_wgt": 0,
      "is_aggregate": true,
      "is_leaf": true,
      "is_net_wgt_estimated": true,
      "is_qty_estimated": true,
      "is_reported": false,
      "mot_code": 0,
      "mot_desc": "TOTAL MOT",
      "net_wgt": 142925552.458,
      "partner2_code": 0,
      "partner2_desc": "World",
      "partner_code": 0,
      "partner_desc": "World",
      "partner_iso": "W00",
      "period": "2019",
      "primary_value": 7111977093,
      "qty": 2189051044.308,
      "qty_unit_abbr": "u",
      "qty_unit_code": 5,
      "reporter_code": 156,
      "reporter_desc": "China",
      "reporter_iso": "CHN",
      "type_code": "C"
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "classification": "HS",
    "cmd_code": "850440",
    "flow_code": "M",
    "freq_code": "A",
    "include_desc": true,
    "partner_code": "0",
    "periods": [
      "2019"
    ],
    "reporter_code": "156",
    "type_code": "C"
  },
  "truncated": false
}