Basic usage

In tradestatistics: Open Trade Statistics API Wrapper and Utility Program

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Introduction

This vignette explains the functions within this package. The idea is to show how this package simplifies obtaining data from (api.tradestatistics.io)[https://api.tradestatistics.io].

To improve the presentation of the tables I shall use tibble besides tradestatistics.

library(tradestatistics)
library(tibble)

Package data

Available tables

Provided that this package obtains data from an API, it is useful to know which tables can be accessed:

as_tibble(ots_tables)

You might notice the tables have a pattern. The letters indicate the presence of columns that account for the level of detail in the data:

• y: year column.
• r: reporter column
• p: partner column
• c: commodity column

The most aggregated table is yr which basically says how many dollars each country exports and imports for a given year.

The less aggregated table is yrpc which says how many dollars of each of the 1,242 commodities from the Harmonized System each country exports to other countries and imports from other countries.

For the complete detail you can check tradestatistics.io.

Country codes

The Package Functions section explains that you don't need to memorize all ISO codes. The functions within this package are designed to match strings (i.e. "United States" or "America") to valid ISO codes (i.e. "USA").

Just as a reference, the table with all valid ISO codes can be accessed by running this:

as_tibble(ots_countries)

Commodity codes

The Package Functions section explains that you don't need to memorize all HS codes. The functions within this package are designed to match strings (i.e. "apple") to valid HS codes (i.e. "0808").

as_tibble(ots_commodities)

Inflation data

This table is provided to be used with ots_gdp_deflator_adjustment().

as_tibble(ots_gdp_deflator)

Package functions

Country code

The end user can use this function to find an ISO code by providing a country name. This works by implementing partial search.

Basic examples:

# Single match with no replacement
as_tibble(ots_country_code("Chile"))

# Single match with replacement
as_tibble(ots_country_code("America"))

# Double match with no replacement
as_tibble(ots_country_code("Germany"))

The function ots_country_code() is used by ots_create_tidy_data() in a way that you can pass parameters like ots_create_tidy_data(... reporters = "Chile" ...) and it will automatically replace your input for a valid ISO in case there is a match. This will be covered in detail in the Trade Data section.

Commodity code

The end user can find a code or a set of codes by looking for keywords for commodities or groups. The function ots_commodity_code() allows to search from the official commodities and groups in the Harmonized system:

as_tibble(ots_commodity_code(commodity = " ShEEp ", section = " mEaT "))

Trade data

This function downloads data for a single year and needs (at least) some filter parameters according to the query type.

Here we cover aggregated tables to describe the usage.

Bilateral trade at commodity level (Year - Reporter - Partner - Commodity Code)

If we want Chile-Argentina bilateral trade at community level in 2019:

yrpc <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2019,
  reporters = "chl",
  partners = "arg",
  table = "yrpc"
)

as_tibble(yrpc)

We can pass two years or more, several reporters/partners, and filter by commodities with exact codes or code matching based on keywords:

# Note that here I'm passing Peru and not per which is the ISO code for Peru
# The same applies to Brazil
yrpc2 <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2018:2019,
  reporters = c("chl", "Peru", "bol"),
  partners = c("arg", "Brazil"),
  commodities = c("01", "food"),
  table = "yrpc"
)

The yrpc table returns some fields that deserve an explanation which can be seen at tradestatistics.io. This example is interesting because "01" return a set of commodities (all commodities starting with 01, which is the commodity group "Animals; live"), but "food" return all commodities with a matching description ("1601", "1806", "1904", etc.). In addition, not all the requested commodities are exported from each reporter to each partner, therefore a warning is returned.

Bilateral trade at aggregated level (Year - Reporter - Partner)

If we want Chile-Argentina bilateral trade at aggregated level in 2018 and 2019:

yrp <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2018:2019,
  reporters = c("chl", "per"),
  partners = "arg",
  table = "yrp"
)

This table accepts different years, reporters and partners just like yrpc.

Reporter trade at commodity level (Year - Reporter - Commodity Code)

If we want Chilean trade at commodity level in 2019 with respect to commodity "010121" which means "Horses; live, pure-bred breeding animals":

yrc <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2019,
  reporters = "chl",
  commodities = "010121",
  table = "yrc"
)

This table accepts different years, reporters and commodity codes just like yrpc.

All the variables from this table are documented at tradestatistics.io.

Reporter trade at aggregated level (Year - Reporter)

If we want the aggregated trade of Chile, Argentina and Peru in 2018 and 2019:

yr <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2018:2019,
  reporters = c("chl", "arg", "per"),
  table = "yr"
)

This table accepts different years and reporters just like yrpc.

All the variables from this table are documented at tradestatistics.io.

Commodity trade at aggregated level (Year - Commodity Code)

If we want all commodities traded in 2019:

yc <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2019,
  table = "yc"
)

If we want the traded values of the commodity "010121" which means "Horses; live, pure-bred breeding animals" in 2019:

yc2 <- ots_create_tidy_data(
  years = 2019,
  commodities = "010121",
  table = "yc"
)

This table accepts different years just like yrpc.

Inflation adjustment

Taking the yr table from above, we can use ots_gdp_deflator_adjustment() to convert dollars from 2018 and 2019 to dollars of 2000:

inflation <- ots_gdp_deflator_adjustment(yr, reference_year = 2000)
as_tibble(inflation)

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