Customs – National Foreign Trade Statistics – January 2021

DatasetNational · FranceNo auth

In France, according to a tradition that dates back more than two centuries, it is the General Directorate of Customs and indirect duties that establish the trade balance. It traces only the exchanges goods and not services. Information on trade in goods is collected on the basis of exchange declarations goods (DEB) for trade with the other 27 Member States and customs declarations (SAD) for trade with other countries (named third countries). Each month, the statistical collection covers exchanges in the reference month (month of publication) **The presentation by product** External trade statistics are presented according to different product classifications. It will be recalled that external trade statistics only track trade in goods and not services. NC8: The 8-digit Combined Nomenclature (CN8), used for reporting obligations operators with customs, allows a detailed knowledge of the foreign trade of the France: it has just under 10000 headings. _This nomenclature is not available to present regional statistics and_ _departments for reasons of confidentiality._.

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good

Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).

Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
Metadata completenessweight 20%46/100
6 of 13 recommended metadata fields populated.
License clarityweight 15%100/100
Normalised to lo-2.0 — open, redistributable.
Agent readinessweight 15%40/100
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Data schema (10 fields)

Field	Type	Description
Flux	text	—
Mois	int	—
Annee	int	—
Code CPF6	int	—
Code A129	text	—
Code NC8	int	—
Code Pays	text	—
Valeur	int	—
Masse	int	—
USUP	int	—

Schema inferred from the distribution file's first records 2 hours ago. Column types are sampled estimates, not source-declared.

Sample data (5 records)

Record 1Flux: E · Mois: 1

{
  "Flux": "E",
  "Mois": "1",
  "USUP": "0",
  "Annee": "2021",
  "Masse": "614",
  "Valeur": "5476",
  "Code NC8": "2042300",
  "Code A129": "C10A",
  "Code CPF6": "101113",
  "Code Pays": "GB"
}

Record 2Flux: E · Mois: 1

{
  "Flux": "E",
  "Mois": "1",
  "USUP": "0",
  "Annee": "2021",
  "Masse": "407",
  "Valeur": "2080",
  "Code NC8": "2071190",
  "Code A129": "C10A",
  "Code CPF6": "101210",
  "Code Pays": "PF"
}

Record 3Flux: E · Mois: 1

{
  "Flux": "E",
  "Mois": "1",
  "USUP": "0",
  "Annee": "2021",
  "Masse": "5",
  "Valeur": "77",
  "Code NC8": "2071310",
  "Code A129": "C10A",
  "Code CPF6": "101210",
  "Code Pays": "SI"
}

Record 4Flux: E · Mois: 1

{
  "Flux": "E",
  "Mois": "1",
  "USUP": "0",
  "Annee": "2021",
  "Masse": "10",
  "Valeur": "40",
  "Code NC8": "3021110",
  "Code A129": "A03Z",
  "Code CPF6": "030021",
  "Code Pays": "PL"
}

Record 5Flux: E · Mois: 1

{
  "Flux": "E",
  "Mois": "1",
  "USUP": "0",
  "Annee": "2021",
  "Masse": "144196",
  "Valeur": "399383",
  "Code NC8": "4015031",
  "Code A129": "C10E",
  "Code CPF6": "105112",
  "Code Pays": "PH"
}

Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.

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Query examples

curl -sL 'https://data.economie.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/statistiques-nationales-du-commerce-exterieur-janvier-2021/exports/csv?use_labels=true' -o data.csv

Full csv file download — the schema shown was inferred from the file's first records.