Eurostat publishes external trade statistics of Member States, Candidate Countries and EFTA countries. For each dataset the following basic information is available:
reporter (country or geo-economic area like EU-27 or euro area),
reference period,
trade flows (import, export) and balance,
product,
partner country (EU Member States or third countries) or geo-economic area.
Aggregated data contain macro-economic indicators on both a monthly and annual basis (short-term and long-term indicators respectively). Trade flows are aggregated according to the product (main groups of SITC or BEC classification) and according to the partner (geo-economic areas).
Short term indicators (disseminated according to major SITC and BEC groups) include:
gross and seasonally adjusted trade value (in million Euro),
unit-value indices,
gross and seasonally adjusted volume indices,
growth rates of trade values and indices.
Long term indicators (disseminated according to major SITC groups) include:
trade value (in billion Euro),
shares by reporting country or by main trading partners,
unit-value indices,
volume indices.
The last subfolder contains monthly series for Candidate Countries and EFTA Countries (trade values and growth rates).
Detailed data record the monthly and annual trade (imports and exports) for the European Union and the euro area as well as for each EU Member State and EFTA countries. Data are disseminated by single declaring country and by single partner, at the most detailed level of several product nomenclatures (CN, HS, SITC, BEC, CPA, and NST/R). Additional datasets provide supplementary information on EU trade by means of transport and on the tariff regime for Extra EU imports.
For detailed data the following indicators are disseminated:
trade value (gross value in Euro),
trade quantity in 100 kg,
trade quantity in supplementary units like, for example, litres or square metres (published for some goods according to the Combined Nomenclature).
The last heading in the subfolder "External trade detailed data" relates to the traditional database access (Comext). Comext allows the user to access the same detailed datasets with a different interface.
