FAS offers several different databases for data on
international agricultural trade. These databases are maintained by FAS and
other U.S. government agencies. If you have any questions or comments about
these databases, please send them to info@fas.usda.gov.
Latest Trade News
U.S. Agricultural Trade Outlook Forecast
(12/01/08)
FAS provides summaries on the latest USDA
quarterly forecasts for U.S. trade in agricultural products, and a link to the
joint FAS/ERS publication "Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade." These outlook
materials are updated in February, May, August and November. FAS trade
estimates on fish and solid wood products are also available.
Agricultural Trade Monthly Summary
USDA summary of the latest
monthly U.S. agricultural trade statistics released by
the U.S. Department of Commerce. This summary
includes calendar year, fiscal year, year-to-date and
monthly values for agricultural exports, imports and
trade balance.
PS&Donline
The
FAS Production, Supply and Distribution
(PS&D) online database contains current and historical official
USDA data on production, supply and distribution of agricultural commodities
for the United States and key producing and consuming countries. Users may
select from a menu of pre-defined tables categorized by commodity or commodity
group.
Export Sales Database
This database allows users to search for information
dating from Jan. 1, 1999, to the present, based on
commodity and country of destination. Data typically
will be updated on a weekly basis, usually Thursdays,
with the release of the weekly export sales report.
Additionally, the database will produce custom graphs
showing outstanding sales and exports of a particular
commodity by marketing year, as well as comparing data
from the previous year and a 5-year average.
Import & Export Data
U.S. export/import data is available from FAS databases in two different forms:
- BICO Reports provides bulk,
intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural product data in both a
calendar or fiscal year format.
- U.S. Trade Reports provides a more comprehensive
commodity by commodity breakdown of exports and imports over a two- or
five-year period.
Databases of Foreign Agricultural
Trade of the United States (FATUS) are available in MS Excel
spreadsheet format from USDA's Economic Research Service. These include the
following:
Agricultural Outlook: Statistical Indicators
The statistical indicators formerly provided in
Agricultural Outlook magazine will continue to be
updated regularly. These tables include data on
individual commodities, the general economy,
agricultural trade, farm income and expenses, farm
prices, food prices and expenditures, and other
statistical indicators of the food and agriculture
system.
State Fact Sheets
State fact sheets provide information on population,
employment, income, farm characteristics, farm financial
indicators, and top commodities, exports, and counties
for each state in the United States.
The Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)*
A collection of data and information for WTO members, AMAD
primarily consists of tariff schedules, tariff bindings,
country notifications, import quantities, applied tariff
rates, and other data useful in tariff analysis. Based in MS
Access™ and Excel™, AMAD is a publicly available information
tool for the analysis of WTO market access issues in
agriculture. The database currently contains data for 50
countries, including documentation and examples.
* AMAD results from a co-operative effort by Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, EU Commission–Agriculture
Directorate-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), the World Bank, United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), and USDA–Economic Research
Service.
Agricultural Baseline Projections: Global
Agricultural Trade, 2007-2016
USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2016 (February
2007) contains long-run projections covering supply, demand,
prices, and other economic variables for major U.S. crop and
livestock sectors.
Processed Food Export Groupings
Using aggregations that
are meaningful to both professionals in the food industry
and the public, processed food products and ingredients are
assigned to 15 categories within the database. Each category
has at least five, and as many as 14, subcategories of
products that can be examined. Aggregations are available of
particular 10-digit codes representing processed food
products in Schedule B of the U.S. Harmonized Trade System,
under which all U.S. trade data are originally collected by
the Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Questions About Trade Data and Statistics
Market Reports
FAS provides a number of world market and commodity analysis reports:
Fact Sheets
USDA provides analyses of what's at stake for world trade and agriculture:
WTO Tariff
Schedules: Search Uruguay Round Agreement tariff schedules by
country or chapter.
U.S.
International Trade Commission Tariff and Trade DataWeb:
Provides
international trade statistics and U.S. tariff data to the
public full-time and free of charge, including U.S. import
statistics, U.S. export statistics, U.S. tariffs, U.S.
future tariffs and U.S. tariff preference information on a
self-service, interactive basis.
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