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Classification systems
Five lenses on the same Census import & export data. Pick the one that matches how you think — or just search a product.
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U.S. Census Bureau trade data is published under five classification systems at once. Each assigns a code to every import and export shipment — which one you use depends on your question: tracking a physical product, an industry, an economic category, or advanced-technology trade. All five draw from the same underlying monthly data; a single coffee shipment appears in every one under a different code.
Use this if you think in a specific physical product.
Use this if you think in what an industry makes.
Use this for economic analysis & international comparison.
Use this to see why goods cross the border.
Use this for advanced-technology trade.
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