Friday, February 27, 2009

International Merchandise Trade Data by Commodity Classification

Question

In the process of providing datasets from this source to a graduate student, we discovered what appears to be an anomaly  with the import file for 2004. This file is much smaller (at 13MG) than its equivalents for all other years (over 50 MG in general). The data is missing for all merchandises with an HS10 code above 4707300090 (part of 4707300090 is also missing). The files on FTP server and on the DLI Web server seem to be identical in that respect.




Is there any reason for that or is just a deficient file? More importantly, can the complete import data be obtained for 2004?

Answer


The author division has agreed to rerun the 2004 import file and provide the DLI with a corrected copy. As soon as the corrected version is available on our site I will send out an announcement.

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