by: Drazen Lucanin (drazen.lucanin at gmail.com)
Organisation responsible for providing quality data about the USA people and economy. According to this data the Census Bureau distributes funds to local, state and tribal governments each year.
Foreign trade is the official source for U.S. export and import statistics and responsible for issuing regulations governing the reporting of all export shipments from the United States. If you're searching for import or export statistics, information on export regulations, commodity classifications, or a host of other trade related topics, this is the place to get the information you need.
The data access tools site lists all the tools that are offered by the Census Bureau. They mostly concern local, US-related data. What is of more interest internationally is the international trade data.
There are two versions of the portal:
that offer different product classifications, according to the two standards.
It is possible to choose one of the product categories (e.g. Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes) and see the values for export and import between USA and all the other countries.
If we were to choose a country, all the goods would be listed that were traded with that country.
Export formats:
The data is USA-related. The international trade data seems to be the only world-related database, but the UN Comtrade offers this as well, for all the countries.
There seems to be no API.