trade flow statistics

Bilateral export and import values and volumes for a classified product such as gold under HS4 7108, drawn from BACI/UN Comtrade and exposed through the OEC REST API and UNCTADstat's country-product tables.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - OEC Gold product trade profile HS 7108 — "156 exporter countries reported for HS4 7108 in 2024; bilateral flows from BACI/UN Comtrade 1995-2024". - BGS MineralsUK — "trade-data; trade data for all countries to 2002, then selected European countries 2003-2018". - UNCTADstat — "merchandise trade flows and concentration indices isolating mineral, ore and metal exports".

BGS MineralsUK is the second reference point worth knowing: "trade-data; trade data for all countries to 2002, then selected European countries 2003-2018". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the trade flow statistics label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — 156 exporter countries reported for HS4 7108 in 2024; bilateral flows from BACI/UN Comtrade 1995-2024. 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 OEC Gold product trade profile HS 7108 lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open OEC Gold product trade profile HS 7108 and confirm its record — "156 exporter countries reported for HS4 7108 in 2024; bilateral flows from BACI/UN Comtrade 1995-2024" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Open BGS MineralsUK and confirm its record — "trade-data; trade data for all countries to 2002, then selected European countries 2003-2018" — against the files you actually receive. 3.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - mineral production statistics - open data catalogue