Posted in International Trade, Updates on Apr 6th, 2011
Hello, International Merchandise Trade Data by Commodity Classification International Merchandise Trade Data by Commodity Classification data for 2010 are now available on the DLI FTP and website. Revised data for 2008 and 2009 have also been added. This was a scheduled revision. The files export2008dat-revised.zip, import2008dat-revised.zip, meta2008dat-revised.zip have been replaced by B465N005_200812-ver2.zip The files export2009dat-revised.zip, [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question A researcher here is looking for data on the import of Toxic Waste into Canada – I suspect that either dollar value or volume would be good, but probably volume would be preferred (as without a price index, dollar value doesn’t give too much information). Any ideas? The World Trade Database doesn’t seem to [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Mar 30th, 2009
Question The files in the subdirectory: trade/international-merchandise-trade-data-by-commodity-classification/ 2007–YYYY-codes-have-changed/2007-yyyy-codes-change.zip are very useful. I have not, however, been able to find any concordances (without paying the WCO for them) to between previous versions of the HS. If I am not mistaken, they are now on about their 5th round of revisions. Could we get comparable concordances between [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Feb 27th, 2009
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 [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Feb 7th, 2008
Question A faculty member here is interested in obtaining international trade flows for South-Western Ontario – does Statistics Canada have these data, and could a custom tabulation be prepared from them? If not at Statistics Canada, would the CRA collect these (thinking that they might at least have value of imports by destination and/or exports [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Jan 16th, 2008
Question A student here is hoping to get data back to 1961 for Canada – United States trade in automobiles and auto parts (North American Industrial Classification System codes 3361 through 3363). He would like annual data for these. We can go back to 1980 with the World Trade Database – it uses the Standard [...]
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Posted in International Trade, Updates on Nov 28th, 2007
World Trade Data is now called World Trade Analyzer Canadian Trade Data is now called World Trade Atlas — Canadian Edition The content of these products has not changed, only their names have been modified. Web: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/worldtrade.htm http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/cantrade.htm FTP: /ftp/dli/trade/world-trade-analyzer /ftp/dli/trade/world-trade-atlas-canada-edition
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Posted in International Trade on Nov 16th, 2007
Question I have a student who wants BC forest product export data to China. She wants it broken down by type of product. I was able to help her with the Trade Analyser from CHASS, but she would like more detailed data if she can get it. What she is looking for is a breakdown [...]
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Canadian Trade Data – 2006 (NEW!), 2004 & 2005 Revised Canadian Trade Data is a product from the International Trade Division of Statistics Canada. It contains Canada’s trade activity with the rest of the world. FTP: ftp/dli/trade/can_trade WEB: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/cantrade.htm ****************** Education Tables The DLI has been provided with a few standard tables from Culture, Tourism [...]
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Posted in International Trade on Feb 13th, 2007
Question A grad student here is attempting to look at international trade. He is interested in looking specifically at trade by mode of transportation – what is the value of material arriving by rail / air / sea / road? He’d like at least twenty data points (twenty years, by preference). He doesn’t care about [...]
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