World trade flows, 1962-2000.

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A new dataset of worldwide bilateral wade data by commodity, for 19622000, is available from www.nber.org/data (choose: International Trade Data; World Trade Data; NBER-United Nations trade data; documentation is presented in NBER Working Paper No. 11040). Prepared by Robert C. Feenstra and Robert E. Lipsey, with assistance from Haiyan Deng, Alyson C. Ma, Hengyong Mo, and Harry R Bowen, the data are derived from the United Nations (UN) trade statistics and organized by the 4-digit Standard International Trade Classification, revision 2, with country codes similar to the UN classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database for years 1970-92 that was available from the NBER. In that database, Statistics Canada had revised the United Nations trade data, mostly derived from...