International Trade Data

Schott’s International Economics Resource Page
Trade Data and Concordances
Updated 2018.10.15

Dataset / Documentation Citation Downloads
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HS-level U.S. import and export data
(HS x country x year; Stata format)
(v2018.10.15)HS import data layout
HS export data layoutThese data were purchased from the U.S. Census Bureau and converted into Stata format; funding from Yale Social Sciences Library is acknowledged gratefully
Please reference Schott (2008);

Note that in addition to the records contained in the layout, these files also contain NAICS codes

Imports: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Exports: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Concordance for 1989-2007 US HS codes over time

 

Please reference Pierce and Schott (2012) Zip file; see paper for
description of contents
Concordance of 1989-2017 US HS codes to US SIC, SITC and NAICS codes over time

 

Pierce and Schott (2009)

2018 update: see this readme.txt for update notes

2018 version

See paper for
more detail

(Previous version)

Data for replicating results in Pierce and Schott (2016) The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment American Economic Review 106(7):1632-62 Data directory
U.S. apparel and textile quotas under the MFA and ATC

 

Description

Please reference Brambilla, Khandelwal and Schott (2010) Dataset
US HS-MFA Concordance(data zipped using free 7-Zip utility)
Chinese HS code to MFA category concordances

Chinese Source Documents

Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporter. 2013. American Economic Review 103(6):2169-95. Canada
EU
US
U.S. Tariff Schedule, 1989-2001 Please reference Feenstra, Romalis and Schott (2002) Dataset
U.S. export and import HS codes used by year Please reference Pierce and Schott (2012) Zip file
SIC87- and NAICS-level U.S. import and export data, 1972-2005
(SIC or NAICS x country x year; Stata format)(v2011.11.30)Data descriptionThe underlying data were purchased from the U.S. Census Bureau and converted into Stata format; funding from Yale Social Sciences Library is acknowledged gratefully
These data are an update of Schott (2008) and use the concordances from Pierce and Schott (2009) and Bartelsman et al (2000). SIC87
1972-2005NAICS
1989-2005Notes:(1) These data also contain countries’ GDP per capita and so can be used to compute low-wage country import penetration as in Bernard, Jensen and Schott (2006a). They also contain cif charges and duties collected and so can be used to estimate trade costs as in that paper and in Bernard, Jensen and Schott (2006b).(2) I am no longer updating the SIC version of these data, but will periodically update the NAICS version.
Import penetration, low-wage country competition indexes and trade cost data from Bernard, Jensen and Schott (2006)

Low-wage competition slides with movie

Trade cost slides with movie
Plotting a Leamer (1987) Triangle?

Please reference Survival of the Best Fit: Low Wage Competition and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Plants Journal of International Economics 68 (2006):219-237. Updated (v2011.3.3)
low-wage country share (sic basis)
low-wage country share (naics basis)
data layout and graphsOriginal (JIE 2006)
import penetration
low-wage competition
trade costs
data layout
Country-industry capital intensity; described in the paper listed in the cell to the right. One Size Fits All? Heckscher-Ohlin Specialization in Global Production. 2003. American Economic Review 93(2):686-708 Data
“Parts” indicator for identifying international trade in intermediate goods. This file identifies TSUSA and HS import product codes that contain the word “parts”. Please reference Across-Product versus Within-Product Specialization in International Trade QJE 119(2):647-678 (May 2004) Intermediate Product Indicator (Excel)

U.S. Intermediate Imports (Stata)
Dataset Layout

Concordance of Chinese CIC industries to ISIC (revision 3) industries Judith M. Dean and Mary E. Lovely. “Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China’s Environment.” China’s Growing Role in World Trade. Ed. R. Feenstra and S. Wei. Chicago: NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2010 CIC to ISIC
Concordance of ISIC (revision 3) to SIC (revision 1987) http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regdnld.asp?Lg=1 ISIC to SIC
Concordance of US, UN and WB country codes Please reference Schott (2004) Dataset

 

 

US import and export data
(v2018.10.15)

Citation: Schott (2008)

Format: HS import data layout; HS export data layout

Imports: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Exports: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Notes: These data were purchased from the U.S. Census Bureau and converted into Stata format; funding from Yale Social Sciences Library is acknowledged gratefully

Concordance for US HS codes over time
(v XXX)

Citation: Pierce and Schott (2012)

Data: Zip file

Notes: These data were purchased from the U.S. Census Bureau and converted into Stata format; funding from Yale Social Sciences Library is acknowledged gratefully

Concordance of US HS codes to SIC, SITC and NAICS
(v 2018.10.15)

Citation: Pierce and Schott (2009)

Data: Zip File

see paper for description of contents

Notes: These data were purchased from the U.S. Census Bureau and converted into Stata format; funding from Yale Social Sciences Library is acknowledged gratefully

 

 

Links to Useful US Census Data Information