Economic data

Publisher-native merchandise trade balance with world (TRADE_FLOW=TB), in current-price exchange-rate-converted USD billions. Services and current-account balances are excluded. No export/import subtraction, currency conversion or scaling is applied by SOTW. National customs coverage and export/import valuation conventions can differ; detailed national exceptions are not supplied in this CSV. Do not equate this measure with national balance-of-payments or goods-and-services headline balances. NSA and calendar-plus-seasonally adjusted (SCA) are distinct identities. Generic OECD EA/EU identities retain their source membership convention. OECD Data Terms section 3 permits commercial reuse with attribution except separately restricted or third-party-owned data; no additional restriction was identified in the pinned IMTS flow metadata reviewed 2026-10-12. Source flags and all dimensions are retained; collection time does not establish original publisher release time.

OECD (2026), International merchandise trade statistics, https://data-explorer.oecd.org/?lc=en&df[ag]=OECD.SDD.TPS&df[id]=DSD_IMTS@DF_IMTS&df[vs]=1.0 (accessed on 2026-10-14). Retain OECD attribution in further redistribution.

Reuse terms: OECD Data Terms. Effective resale permission: permitted under the provider terms.

Series-wide coverage: 2000-01-01 to 2026-08-01. SOTW publication: 2026-10-14T00:02:38.86176+00:00.

Acquisition and dataset-update dates do not establish original publication dates. This view shows current source readings. Use a recorded-state pin to replay SOTW’s archive from its activation boundary.

Same exact source series, unit, frequency and definition. National exceptions and source flags still apply.

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  "selection": {
    "FREQ": "M",
    "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
    "TRADE_FLOW": "TB",
    "PRODUCT_TYPE": "C",
    "UNIT_MEASURE": "USD_EXC",
    "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
    "COUNTERPART_AREA": "W"
  },
  "terms_url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html",
  "adjustment": "Neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted",
  "geo_mapping": {
    "EA": "EA",
    "EU": "EU",
    "G20": "G20",
    "EA20": "EA20",
    "EU27_2020": "EU27"
  },
  "source_unit": "USD_EXC",
  "structure_url": "https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/v1/dataflow/OECD.SDD.TPS/DSD_IMTS@DF_IMTS/1.0?references=all",
  "transformation": "N",
  "api_guidance_url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/data/insights/data-explainers/2024/11/Api-best-practices-and-recommendations.html",
  "source_attributes": {
    "PRICES": "V",
    "CURRENCY": "_Z",
    "DECIMALS": "2",
    "UNIT_MULT": "9"
  },
  "aggregate_identity": "Generic EA/EU source membership retained; not relabelled as fixed EA20/EU27.",
  "calculation_origin": "OECD publisher-native TRADE_FLOW=TB; no SOTW component arithmetic",
  "source_method_limit": "Country-specific customs/valuation exceptions are not supplied in CSV; no national-headline equivalence inferred.",
  "reviewed_code_labels": {
    "CL_AREA/W": "World",
    "CL_AREA/EA": "Euro area",
    "CL_AREA/EU": "European Union",
    "CL_AREA/G20": "G20",
    "CL_ADJUSTMENT/N": "Neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted",
    "CL_ADJUSTMENT/Y": "Calendar and seasonally adjusted",
    "CL_TRADE_FLOW/TB": "Trade balance",
    "CL_PRODUCT_TYPE/C": "Commodities",
    "CL_UNIT_MEASURE/USD_EXC": "US dollars, exchange rate converted"
  },
  "source_dataset_updated": "2026-10-13T22:38:20",
  "omitted_aggregate_codes": [
    "EU15",
    "G7",
    "OECD",
    "OECD26",
    "OECDE",
    "USMCA"
  ],
  "reviewed_country_allowlist": [
    "ARG",
    "AUS",
    "AUT",
    "BEL",
    "BGR",
    "BRA",
    "CAN",
    "CHE",
    "CHL",
    "CHN",
    "COL",
    "CRI",
    "CYP",
    "CZE",
    "DEU",
    "DNK",
    "ESP",
    "EST",
    "FIN",
    "FRA",
    "GBR",
    "GRC",
    "HRV",
    "HUN",
    "IDN",
    "IND",
    "IRL",
    "ISL",
    "ISR",
    "ITA",
    "JPN",
    "KOR",
    "LTU",
    "LUX",
    "LVA",
    "MEX",
    "MLT",
    "NLD",
    "NOR",
    "NZL",
    "PER",
    "POL",
    "PRT",
    "ROU",
    "RUS",
    "SAU",
    "SVK",
    "SVN",
    "SWE",
    "TUR",
    "USA",
    "ZAF"
  ],
  "publisher_dataset_description": "OECD statistics contact: <a href=\"mailto:stat.contact@oecd.org\">stat.contact@oecd.org</a></p><p>The International Trade dataset contains predominantly monthly merchandise trade statistics, and associated statistical methodological information, for all OECD member countries and for all non-OECD G20 economies and the EU.</P><br>The dataset itself contains international trade statistics measured in billions of US dollars (USD) or Millions of billions of National Currency or Growth rates for: Exports, Imports, Trade Balance. In all cases a lot of effort has been made to ensure that the data are internationally comparable across all countries presented and that all the subjects have good historical time-series’ data to aid with analysis.</br>"
}