TRADE HISTORY
U.S. Census international trade
Monthly U.S. import aggregates across customs-district and country views, with a bounded retained history for trend and comparison work.
USE THIS DATA FOR
Good questions to ask
- read history
- trend
- compare
- trade aggregate question
retained January 2023 through December 2025 archive summary months when published; entry, unlading, and country bases remain distinct; revised releases require new retained evidence and this catalogue does not assert complete imported coverage
BOUNDARIES
Read the limits
- Answers aggregate trade questions only; it cannot answer company-shipment or manifest questions.
- The retained range is bounded and may contain missing or partial months.
- No national nowcast, worldwide license, or port-level crosswalk is implied.
Cite the archive member, statistical month/vintage, original archive URL, and access date. Keep customs-district, country, and commodity axes distinct; do not invent a port crosswalk.
PROVENANCE
Source and rights
U.S. Census Bureau public aggregate summaries; cite the member, Merchandise Trade Imports product, statistical vintage/month, original archive URL, and access date per https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/data/IMDB.html; use the official record layouts at https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/products/layouts/imdb.html; U.S.-bounded general-policy inference only, not a dataset-specific or worldwide license; excludes confidential, third-party, contractor, and manifest material
- Provider
- US Census Bureau
- Attribution
- Required
- Reuse
- conditional