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1. Recent Additions

2. Utilities

3. NBER Data

A. Penn World Tables
B. Trade and Immigration Dataset
C. Import data
D. Manufacturing Productivity Database.

4. Tariff Data

5. Useful Gravity Model Data

6. Bilateral Trade Data

7. Trade Price Data

Utilities:

• 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.

Penn World Tables

Trade and Immigration Dataset

• Ascii - there is a zip (764k) file that contains all of the following, or you can view them individually.
  • Data (3.2M)
  • Documentation
  • Terse variable ordering
  • SAS Output Statistics
  • Listing of included SIC codes (1972 Manufacturing)
  
  

• Unix Compress (of ASCII) (739k) Contains only the data.

  
  

• Unix Stata. (3.0)
  • tradejma.dta: (784k) the complete trade file including immrat as documented in Table A.1
  • industry.dta: (11k) : the immigrant ratio variables by SIC as documented in Table A.2
  • imstate.dta: (1k) , imsmsa70.dta(2k), imsmsa80.dta(3k): all the variables from Table A.3

  
  

• PC Stata (3.0) (Apparently these files have been removed. If anybody knows where they can be found, I'd love to reset the link. Thanks.)
  • tradejma.dta: (784k) the complete trade file including immrat as documented in Table A.1
  • industry.dta: (11k) : the immigrant ratio variables by SIC as documented in Table A.2
  • imstate.dta: (1k) , imsmsa70.dta(2k), imsmsa80.dta(3k): all the variables from Table A.3
  (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

• Imports by SIC category 1958-1992. (From Robert Feenstra)

Manufacturing Productivity Database

• Gray and Bartelsman Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database.

• 1998 edition

  • Download: HTS Basic Edition in WordPerfect 5.0 format (1.6MB)

  • Download: HTS Basic Edition plus First Supplement in WordPerfect 5.0 format (1.6MB)

• 1997 edition

  • Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect 5.1 format (1,256,742 bytes)

  • Download: HTS file #2 in WordPerfect 5.1 format (357,063 bytes)

• 1996 edition

  • Download: HTS file #1 in WordPerfect 5.0 format (643,511 bytes)

  • 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)

• 1995 edition

  • Download: HTS file in ASCII format, compressed using UNIX GNUZip. (202,333 bytes)

  • Format and data information.

• 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.

The only international price data that I am aware of is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


I have pulled some of the data off of the BLS website and reformatted it. The Excel 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
(Feel free to let me know if these data become overly out of date. The programs are such that an update can be done in about 15 minutes, so I will happily update them at your request.)



• Trade prices by SITC R3
  • Import Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Import Price Data (660kb)
  • Export Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Export Price Data (633kb)
  
  
• Trade prices by "End Use" Category
  • Import Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Import Price Data (588kb)
  • Export Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Export Price Data (545kb)
  
  
• Trade prices by Harmonized System
  • Import Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Import Price Data (247kb)
  • Export Prices
    • Industry Codes: numerical, verbal, and import weights
    • Export Price Data (233kb)

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.