EUROSTAT

Retrieve one monthly bilateral goods-trade series from Eurostat Comext: a reporting area, a partner, a product, a trade direction, and a value or quantity measure.

Syntax

series=EUROSTAT(reporter.partner.product.flow.measure.firstMonth.lastMonth)

Enter the seven fields as one dotted argument, without spaces or quoted strings. Month bounds use YYYYMM; both endpoints are included. The first month must precede or equal the last, and the last cannot be in the future.

Field	Accepted value	Meaning
`reporter`	Eurostat geographic code, such as `DE`	Country or reporting area whose trade is recorded.
`partner`	Eurostat geographic code, such as `KZ`	Trading partner. Use the Eurostat code, not a numeric Comtrade code.
`product`	Exact 2-, 4-, 6-, or 8-digit product code	HS or Combined Nomenclature product level supported by the selected dataset and period. Eight-digit codes are CN codes.
`flow`	`EXPORT` or `IMPORT`	Exports by the reporter to the partner, or imports by the reporter from the partner.
`measure`	`VALUE` or `WEIGHT`	`VALUE` is in euros; `WEIGHT` is in units of 100 kg.
`firstMonth`, `lastMonth`	`YYYYMM`	Requested inclusive monthly window.

Worked example: Germany to Kazakhstan

Plot Germany's reported exports of product 854231 to Kazakhstan from January 2021 through December 2025.

deKz=EUROSTAT(DE.KZ.854231.EXPORT.VALUE.202101.202512)
deKz=SET_NAME(deKz,"Germany exports to Kazakhstan: product 854231")
chart=SET_TITLE(LINE_CHART(deKz),"Monthly exports to Kazakhstan (EUR)")
chart

Read the direction literally. DE.KZ...EXPORT measures exports reported by Germany to Kazakhstan. It does not measure Kazakhstan's onward exports to another country.

Result and availability

The result is a monthly series with the requested trade values or weights. Each dated point refers to its calendar month.
The source is Eurostat Comext dataset DS-045409. The adapter requests the exact product, partner, reporter, flow, measure, and months.
Months without a usable observation remain absent. They are not automatically converted to zero. The adapter also omits observations bearing a Eurostat status flag.
A downloaded series is cached on the RainbowStats server. The adapter checks for an update after approximately 24 hours; Eurostat can subsequently revise published statistics.
These requests use Eurostat's public API and require no API key.

Use the series in a trade study

Start by inspecting monthly coverage, product definitions, and the country that reports each flow. For a difference-in-differences design, compare a treated route with a credible control using consistent product codes, direction, units, and reporting practices. Inspect pretreatment trends before interpreting the estimate. A rise in exports to a transit country is a trade pattern, not proof that an individual shipment violated sanctions.

Do not overlay raw currency values as though they were the same unit. This command reports VALUE in EUR; COMTRADE reports VALUE in USD. Likewise, Eurostat WEIGHT is in 100 kg while Comtrade weight is in kg. Align units and investigate reporting differences before comparing levels.

Common checks

Symptom	What to check
`Invalid trade code`	Use a Eurostat geographic reporter and partner, an allowed product-code length, and `EXPORT`/`IMPORT` with `VALUE`/`WEIGHT`.
No observations	Verify that the reporter, partner, product and months are available. An absent month is not a measured zero.
`COMTRADE failed: Invalid trade code: DE`	The command dispatcher is routing `EUROSTAT` to `COMTRADE`; rebuild the module that contains `OperatorOperationTool`.

Source

Eurostat, International Trade in Goods (Comext) database and information on data, release timing, and revisions. Check Eurostat's product and country metadata when a definition matters to the research question.