Important Notice on changes in TradeSTAT

This year the methodology for the estimation of trade data has been revised (to take advantage of the wealth of trade partner, mirror, data and full available FAOSTAT modelling capacities).

So, due to this new approach users can expect to find time series breaks for TradeSTAT circa 1990.

The FAOSTAT TradeSTAT module contains detailed agricultural trade data.

The agricultural trade data are detailed official data, provided electronically (CD-ROMs, etc.) by over 100 countries/ territories on an annual basis. The original files are standardised, processed and validated by the Basic Statistics Group (Global Statistics Service) of the Statistics Division whereby the national commodity classification (usually the Harmonised System) is converted to the FAO commodity classification to cover over 600 food & agriculture commodities

This module contains:
 Detailed trade data
 Detailed graphical trade flows
 Detailed trade matrix