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These pages are the brainchild
of Jon Haveman. If you find these pages
useful, we would appreciate knowing who you are. These pages would also
benefit from any concordances or data that you would be willing to make
publicly available. If you have found these pages useful, or have something
to contribute, or have any requests, please e-mail Raymond Robertson. Thanks in
advance for your time, interest, and data!
Utilities:
Some of the data are compressed and combined using UNIX utilities. Some
of these utilities are avialable for PCs.
- Tar is a utility that combines many
files in one file.
- Files combined
using Tar will generally have ".tar." in their name.
- Zip is then generally used to
compress files.
- Files compressed
using Zip will generally have a ".z", ".gz" or
".Z" in their name.
NBER Data
Penn World Tables
· Version 5.5
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· Version 5.6
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Trade and Immigration Dataset
- Ascii - there is a
zip (764k) file
that contains all of the following, or you can view them individually.
(Documentation of STATA files refers to the tables in
the Appendix of J.Abowd and R. Freeman "Immigration, Trade and the Labor
Market" NBER 1991.)
Import Data
Manufacturing Productivity Database
Tariff Data
US Harmonized
Tariff Schedule:
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1999 edition
Download: HTS Basic Edition in WordPerfect
5.0 format (1.5MB)
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1998 edition
Download: HTS Basic Edition in WordPerfect
5.0 format (1.6MB)
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Download:
HTS Basic Edition plus First Supplement in WordPerfect 5.0
format (1.6MB)
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1997 edition
Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect
5.1 format (1,256,742 bytes)
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Download:
HTS file #2 in WordPerfect 5.1 format (357,063 bytes)
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1996 edition
Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect
5.0 format (643,511 bytes)
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Download:
HTS file #2 in WordPerfect 5.0 format (967,718 bytes)
Download: HTS file in ASCII
format, compressed using UNIX GNUZip. (564,649 bytes)
Notes:
- The WordPerfect
versions of the data are in a really akward format. I am in the process
of improving their read/useability.
- Please see the
web page for the ITC if
you need more information.
Download: my own extract of the US
1996 HS MFN tariffs. In ASCII format (262k)
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1995 edition
Useful Gravity Model Data
- Distance Measure - provides the Great
Circle distance between capital cities. (562k)
- Contiguity - lists all countries that
have a common land border.
- Languages - lists the primary
language for 178 countries.
International Price Data
I have pulled some of the data off of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics website and reformatted it. The files that the BLS
provides are not very conveniently formatted. I hope that you find these
files easier to use.
Last updated: 2/10/96
If you need more recent data, please access the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site.
- Trade prices by
SITC R3
- Import
Prices
- Export
Prices
- Trade prices by
"End Use" Category
- Import
Prices
- Export
Prices
- Trade prices by
Harmonized System
- Import
Prices
- Export
Prices
Goods Classification
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Rauch Classification of Goods[Revised July 2007!]
- Download: This file contains a
categorization of SITC Rev. 2
industries according to three possible types: differentiated products,
reference priced, or homogeneous goods.
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- Description of
File
- Column 1:
4-digit SITC code
- Column 2:
"Conservative" classification
- Column 3:
"Liberal" classification
- Coding Scheme
- w=goods traded
on an organized exchange (homogeneous goods)
- r=reference
priced
- n=differentiated
products
- Source: Rauch,
James E. "Networks Versus Markets in International Trade,"
Journal of International Economics 48(1) (June 1999): 7-35.
1997 Commodity Flow Survey
1997 Commodity Flow
Survey
- The public version of the
1997 Commodity Flow Survey data is poorly organized, and difficult to
work with. In this file the data is
organized better so that it can be used more broadly.
- Clic
here for a documentation of the data
- This file is a courtesy of:
Russell Hillberry
Research Division, Office of Economics, USITC
Disclaimer: Please note that these data are to the best of my knowledge
correct. If you want to ensure their accuracy, you should double check them
yourself. If you do double check them and find errors, I would appreciate it
if you would inform me. Thank you.
Raymond Robertson (robertson@macalester.edu)
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