Evidence-backed facts
- UN Comtrade provides API developer access to detailed annual and monthly trade statistics by product, reporter, partner, flow, period, and classification. informative
- Free registered access has documented call and record ceilings, while subscription tiers provide additional functionality; an API key is a private credential. informative
- Clients must bind frequency, classification, commodity, reporter, partner, period, trade flow, breakdown, paging, and aggregation instead of treating totals as raw records. informative
- Trade data is country-reported and can be estimated, converted, revised, delayed, or asymmetric between partners and does not prove current shipments or economic causation. informative