BACI International Trade Database (HS 2017)

Bilateral trade flows at the 6-digit HS 2017 product level from the BACI database, published by CEPII and distributed by the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC). One row per year × exporter × importer × HS product. Covers ~200 countries. Values in USD; quantities in metric tons.

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Source

Name: Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)
URL: https://oec.world/en/resources/datasets
License: CC BY 4.0

Size and Format

Rows: 79,258,376
Columns: 12
Size (bytes): 942,980,265
Formats: parquet, csv

Pricing

Per query (USD): 0.0100 USD
Max rows per query: 1000
Free: No
Free sample: Yes

Temporal Coverage

end: 2024
start: 1995
frequency: annual

Geographic Coverage

level: country
coding: ISO Alpha-3 (lowercase)
region: Global (~200 countries)

Query Filters

Columns you can use as query params in GET /api/datasets/baci-hs17/query.

year Members (JSON)
exporter_id Members (JSON)
importer_id Members (JSON)
hs_code Members (JSON)

Schema (Columns)

Column	Type	Description	Filterable
`year`	integer	Year of the trade flow	Yes
`exporter_id`	string	Exporting country (ISO Alpha-3, lowercase)	Yes
`exporter_name`	string	Exporting country name	No
`importer_id`	string	Importing country (ISO Alpha-3, lowercase)	Yes
`importer_name`	string	Importing country name	No
`hs_code`	string	HS 2017 product code (6-digit, zero-padded)	Yes
`product_name`	string	HS product description	No
`hs_revision`	integer	HS classification revision year	No
`value`	number	Trade value in USD	No
`quantity`	number	Trade quantity	No
`unit_abbrevation`	string	Unit of quantity (abbreviation)	No
`unit_name`	string	Unit of quantity (full name)	No

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