reporter-partner-flow

The dimensional grain of a Comtrade query: which economy reported the shipment, who the counterparty was, the commodity code, and whether the flow is an import, export, re-import or re-export.

Each axis must be specified when pulling paper trade rows.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - coverage.granularity on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics — "Reporter x partner x year x HS commodity code x flow". - coverage.temporal on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics — "Annual series from 1962 onwards depending on classification; monthly data for recent periods".

coverage.temporal on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics is the second reference point worth knowing: "Annual series from 1962 onwards depending on classification; monthly data for recent periods". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

A table is only as good as the column you actually need. If this field is absent, sparsely populated or defined inconsistently across rows, no amount of surrounding richness rescues the analysis, so it deserves its own line in your evaluation checklist.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the reporter-partner-flow label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — Reporter x partner x year x HS commodity code x flow. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and coverage.granularity on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open coverage.granularity on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics and confirm its record — "Reporter x partner x year x HS commodity code x flow" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open coverage.temporal on paper-products--un-comtrade-international-trade-statistics and confirm its record — "Annual series from 1962 onwards depending on classification; monthly data for recent periods" — against the files you actually receive.

See the term applied to real records: electrical-components-equipment data, paper-products data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - bilateral trade flows - freemium preview tier - HS codes