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How to Run Foreign Trade Query
How to Download, Format, and Calculate Totals
Additional Information
Steps
1. To run a report select your desired parameters. First, select the type of trade that you would like to query. Next select the years. To select multiple years, hold down the ctrl key while clicking on the desired years or click-and-drag for subsequent years.
2. Click the single arrow pointing right to add it to your query. If you accidentally select a year that you do not want to query, simply select it and click the arrow pointing to the left.
You can also select all years by clicking the double arrow pointing right.
3. Choose what geographic scale you would like to query: Continents, Country or US Customs District.
4. Select the geographic scale that you would like to query. Hold down the ctrl key or click-and-drag to select multiple scales simultaneously.
5. Click the single arrow pointing right to add it to your query. If you accidentally select a geographic scale that you do not want to query, simply select it and click the arrow pointing to the left.
You can also select all geographic scales by clicking the double arrow pointing to the right.
6. Select the product type you would like to query. Hold down the ctrl key to select multiple product types simultaneously.
To find the product type type more quickly, you can use the "Search Products" option to quickly narrow down the options. For example, by typing "tuna" and hitting "search," you can see the product type field is narrowed to just tuna product type.
7. Click the single arrow pointing to the right to add it to your query.
You can also select all product type by clicking the double arrow pointing right
8. Click the RUN REPORT button.
9. The results will appear on the right side of the page by year, product name, country name, trade type, volume, and value.
From there, you can view the data in different ways by selecting from the drop-down menu found directly above the results.
10. To start over or create a new query, select the Reset button.
Report Download
To download a Foreign Trade report:
Chart
To create a chart or graph of the Foreign Trade data:
Highlight
To highlight specific information in the Foreign Trade report:
Calculate
To calculate specific information in the Foreign Trade report:
Foreign Trade Data Restrictions
Some caveats with the Foreign Trade data:
IMPORTANT: ENTER FOREIGN TRADE CAVEATS HERE
IMPORTANT: ENTER FOREIGN TRADE CAVEATS HERE 2
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