ct_balance: Trade Balance by Partner

In comtrade: Access and Analyse UN Comtrade International Trade Data

Trade Balance by Partner

Description

Compute the trade balance (exports minus imports) for a reporter country against each trading partner.

Usage

ct_balance(
  reporter,
  partner = "0",
  year = NULL,
  commodity = "TOTAL",
  cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

reporter	Character. Reporter country ISO3 code.
partner	Character. Partner country code, or "0" for World. Default "0".
year	Integer. Year(s) to query.
commodity	Character. Commodity code. Default "TOTAL".
cache	Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with columns: partner, partner_desc, year, exports, imports, balance.

Examples

op <- options(comtrade.cache_dir = tempdir())
ct_balance("GBR", year = 2023)
options(op)

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