ct_services: Get Services Trade Data

In comtrade: Access and Analyse UN Comtrade International Trade Data

Get Services Trade Data

Description

Download international services trade data from the UN Comtrade database using the EBOPS (Extended Balance of Payments Services) classification.

Usage

ct_services(
  reporter,
  partner = "0",
  service = "TOTAL",
  flow = c("X", "M"),
  year = NULL,
  cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

reporter	Character. Reporter country ISO3 code.
partner	Character. Partner country code. Default "0" (World).
service	Character. EBOPS service code. Default "TOTAL".
flow	Character. Trade flow: "X" (exports), "M" (imports). Can be a vector. Default c("X", "M").
year	Integer. Year(s) to query (2000-present). Default: most recent available year.
cache	Logical. Cache results locally. Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with columns: reporter, reporter_desc, partner, partner_desc, flow, flow_desc, service_code, service_desc, year, trade_value_usd.

Examples

op <- options(comtrade.cache_dir = tempdir())

# UK services exports to the world
ct_services("GBR", year = 2022, flow = "X")

options(op)

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