Eurostat International Trade in Goods (Comext) — incl. Gold HS 7108

Europe's official ledger of who sold gold to whom, and how much of it moved. Eurostat International Trade in Goods (Comext) is the dissemination database behind EU trade-in-goods statistics, built on collection DS-045409, "EU trade since 1988 by HS2-4-6 and CN8." Every row is one bilateral flow: an EU member state reporter, a partner country anywhere in the world, a combined-nomenclature product line, a direction, a period - and two measures, VALUE_IN_EUROS for what the goods were worth and QUANTITY_IN_100KG for what they weighed.

Gold enters through chapter 71 of the harmonized system. Heading 7108 covers gold in unwrought and semi-manufactured forms, monetary gold included, reachable at the HS6 line 7108 or drilled to CN8 detail such as 71081300 for other unwrought gold. Because the frame is the full goods matrix - every CN8 code against roughly 200 partners and about 30 reporters since 1988, hundreds of millions of cells - a gold cut is a precise slice of the authoritative European record rather than a hand-built aggregation.

Datadory cataloged this record under Gas Utilities with Gold as its subject industry, one of several cross-tagged feeds in the slice. Get a sample of this dataset and we return real rows cut to the reporters, partners and product lines you name.

Two verified observations pulled during the August 2026 research pass, exactly as they land in your warehouse:

reporter           : DE              # Germany
partner            : CH              # Switzerland
product            : 7108            # gold, unwrought/semi-manufactured, incl. monetary gold
flow               : EXPORT
time               : 2023            # annual
VALUE_IN_EUROS     : 2,590,534,330
QUANTITY_IN_100KG  : 557.82          # = 55,782 kg  (~55.8 t)

reporter           : EU27_2020       # EU-27 aggregate
partner            : CN              # China
product            : 7108
flow               : IMPORT
time               : 2024
VALUE_IN_EUROS     : 10,048,180
QUANTITY_IN_100KG  : 19.55           # = 1,955 kg

Read together, the two rows already sketch the market's shape. The Germany-to-Switzerland lane moves tens of tonnes - 557.82 hundred-kilogram units, EUR 2.59 billion of metal, an implied average near EUR 46,400 per kilogram - while the entire EU-27 import line from China in 2024 ran 1,955 kg at an implied EUR 5,140 per kilogram. Same heading, very different cargo: the unit-value gap is the CN8 mix talking, monetary and unwrought forms priced differently, which is precisely why the product dimension matters before anyone averages anything. Every row carries its full dimension key, so nothing arrives as an unlabeled number.

Eight documented fields define every observation, and five of them are enumerated dimension codes rather than free text - which is why joins never drift. Field definitions below are marked verified against live responses during research, not inferred from documentation. The dictionary is the complete core schema; anything beyond it is quoted per request rather than guessed at.

Geography - the EU-27 aggregate and every member state as reporter, each set against all global partner countries: roughly 30 reporters x about 200 partners, with aggregates and member states shipping side by side so a Europe-wide chart and a single-country breakdown come from the same query shape.

Temporal - annual series from 1988 to the present, with monthly detail available in recent years. Nearly four decades of history spans several complete gold-market cycles, central-bank regime shifts included.

Granularity - one observation per reporter x partner x product line x direction x period, at annual or monthly frequency. Product resolution runs to CN8 eight-digit lines inside heading 7108; there is no firm-level, shipment-level or vault-level detail beneath the country pairs.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

You choose the channel and the cadence; the field dictionary above travels unchanged across all three. Annual extracts suit teams loading complete history once and joining it to their own price or position tables, scoped monthly feeds suit products surfacing lane-level metrics inside an app, and warehouse delivery suits analysts running flow models in SQL. Name the reporters, partners and CN8 lines and the extract comes back pre-cut - cadence changes are a settings conversation, not a re-integration project.

• Market sizing and sourcing maps - quantify which member states ship gold, to which hubs, in what tonnage; the Germany-Switzerland corridor in the sample above is the kind of structural lane the panel surfaces without any modeling.
• Sourcing-shift monitoring - track partner-country shares of EU gold imports year over year, with the 1988-onward history long enough to separate a trend from a noisy single print.
• Quant and metals research features - bilateral value and mass series become exogenous inputs to price, flow and inventory models; the dual euro/100 kg encoding keeps value effects and volume effects separable.
• Cross-checking commercial price data - reconcile spot-price assumptions against customs-valued unit values by lane before trusting a blended cost basis.
• Policy, academic and journalistic citation - anchor claims about European monetary-gold movements to the official EU statistical record instead of press summaries.
• Sales territory scoping - identify member states active in gold trading when planning institutional outreach, using observed flows as the activity signal.

Developers and data-product builders rate it highest of the seven personas Datadory tags here: stable, documented CN8 codes make pipelines boring in the good way. Market researchers and consultants get official, customs-based measurements of European monetary-gold trade with methodology attached to every figure. Investors and quant researchers get EU import-export volumes in kilograms and euros for metals research. Data scientists and ML engineers extract monthly CN8-level flow panels by partner for model features. Journalists, academics and students cite EU-official numbers in market coverage. Competitive intelligence teams read regional flow patterns - with the caveat that these rows show flows between countries, not firm behavior. Sales and growth teams rank member states by trading activity when scoping institutional outreach.

Three things worth knowing upfront. First, resolution stops at the country pair: every row is a national statistics declaration of a bilateral flow, so counterparty names, refineries and vaults never appear, and any firm-level question needs a different dataset. Second, heading 7108 blends monetary and unwrought semi-manufactured forms, so headline aggregates mix cargoes with very different unit values - drill to CN8 lines such as 71081300 before computing averages. Third, one verification gap stayed open: the unit conventions behind the supplementary-quantity measure were not confirmable on the research pass, so those columns ship only with the per-code unit check done first. We flag gaps like this rather than papering over them - see the note rail below for adjacent ground.

Notes and adjacent reading:

• Eurostat International Trade in Goods (Comext) - the full-frame record this gold slice is cut from; start there if you need more than chapter 71.
• EU Open Data Portal - Gold Datasets - roughly 1,974 harvested catalog records touching gold, from Swiss import statistics to bullion price bulletins.
• Geoscience Australia - Minerals Data Hub (Gold Resources) - the supply-side complement: identified resources, ore reserves and mine production for the world's second-largest producer.
• Eurostat Natural Gas Supply Statistics - the other Eurostat feed in this catalog slice, for teams standardizing on one statistical office's conventions.

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