The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) presents this bilingual interactive platform, in English and Arabic, to users interested in foreign trade data on Arab countries. The platform provides complete time series starting from 2012, standardized using the Harmonized System (HS 2017) at the 6-digit level of detail. Users can visualize official data in an aggregated or detailed format and process it by country, economic grouping, trade flow, year, HS level and major commodity group, or for the Arab region as a whole. When official data are not available for a specific year, secondary national resources are used, in addition to mirrored country data from the United Nations International Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) and estimates prepared by the Economic Statistics Section at ESCWA. The platform is updated quarterly, with data uploaded to replace estimates.
For feedback, comments, assistance or questions regarding the database, please contact Mr. Abdallah Chammaa (abdallah.chammaa@un.org) in the Economic Statistics Section at ESCWA.
