Name: International Monetary Fund — Commodity terms of trade, commodity export/import price and terms-of-trade indices (CTOT; direct from api.imf.org)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

360

Temporal coverage

1962-12-31 – 2026-05-31

Frequencies

Annual, Monthly

Distinct geographies

180

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Commodity terms of trade (CTOT). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org).
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.imf.org/en/data
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Commodity Terms of Trade (CTOT, formerly PCTOT). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: TABLE-grain listing: one catalogue entry per country x frequency; the CSV carries every series of the pair (all indicators and transformations) in long form, series_id column = the native store key.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_ctot_direct series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_ctot_direct
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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