openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: UN Comtrade Data Bulk Download Reference Data API
  description: 'REST API for extracting international merchandise and services trade statistics from the United Nations Comtrade database. Provides access to final trade data, tariffline data, data availability, metadata, live updates, and bulk file downloads. Covers over 200 reporting countries and territories with data spanning goods and services trade classified by HS, SITC, and other commodity codes. Requires a free B2C account and API subscription key for full access.

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  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: UN Comtrade Support
    email: comtrade@un.org
  x-subscriptions-contact:
    name: UN Comtrade Subscriptions
    email: subscriptions@un.org
  x-logo:
    url: https://comtradeplus.un.org/favicon.ico
  license:
    name: UN Data Terms of Use
    url: https://uncomtrade.org/docs/
servers:
- url: https://comtradeapi.un.org
  description: UN Comtrade API Production Server
security: []
tags:
- name: Reference Data
  description: Public reference data including country groups.
paths:
  /files/v1/app/reference/country_groups.json:
    get:
      operationId: getReferenceCountryGroups
      summary: Get Reference Data - Country Groups
      description: 'Retrieve reference data for country groups used in trade reporting and partner aggregation. Country groups are regional or economic groupings of UN member states. No authentication required.

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      tags:
      - Reference Data
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful country groups reference response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/CountryGroup'
components:
  schemas:
    CountryGroup:
      type: object
      description: Reference data for a country grouping.
      properties:
        groupCode:
          type: string
        groupDesc:
          type: string
        memberCode:
          type: integer
        memberISO:
          type: string
        memberDesc:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key
      description: 'API subscription key obtained after registering a free B2C account at https://comtradeplus.un.org/ and subscribing to the relevant API product.

        '
externalDocs:
  description: UN Comtrade API Documentation
  url: https://uncomtrade.org/docs/un-comtrade-api/