Name: International Monetary Fund — International Trade in Goods by partner country (IMTS, formerly DOTS; 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

2,937

Temporal coverage

1948-12-31 – 2026-03-31

Frequencies

Annual, Monthly, Quarterly

Distinct geographies

245

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, International Trade in Goods by partner country (IMTS). 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 — International Trade in Goods by partner country (IMTS, formerly Direction of Trade Statistics). 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 x indicator; the CSV carries every partner-country series of the table in long form (series_id column = the native IMTS key).

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_imts_direct series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_imts_direct
Automated refresh: not yet wired — the data here is the verified initial load. See the Source Status board.

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schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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