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Commodities Data | Fundamentals

Metals - Imports/Exports

Metals import and export fundamentals with dimension definitions, element descriptions, identifiers and reference metadata.

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Key facts for Metals - Imports/Exports

Coverage metric

Geography:
North America, Asia / Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and the Caribbean
History:
From 1970
Coverage count:
Asset Classes - 40+ Commodity markets

Delivery metadata

Data Frequency
Hourly
Language
English
Delivery methods:
Excel, Deployed/Onsite Servers, API, Web Service, SFTP, Cloud, Desktop, FTP, Bulk, Snowflake, Website, RSS Feed
Data formats:
PDF, GZIP, XML, JSON, CSV, SQL, Text, Python, HTML, Bitmap, MPEG, User Interface, PCAP
Minimum service frequency
Hourly

Overview of Metals - Imports/Exports

COUNTRY LEVEL TRADE ANALYSIS

Connect trade with market balances

• Compare trade data with production, consumption and market balances.

• Analyse changes by country, metal and period.

• Use official and market sources for comparison.

METALS TRADE STATISTICS

Track metals imports and exports

• Access country- and commodity-level metals trade information.

• Review quantities, reporting periods and partners.

• Compare imports, exports and net trade positions.

TRADE BALANCE INSIGHT

Understand metals trade patterns

• Identify changes in import demand and export availability.

• Assess country relationships and trade dependence.

• Support forecasting, procurement and trading.

Description of the dataset

  • LSEG delivers extensive metals import and export data to help customers evaluate global trade flows and changing market balances. We provide this content through our metals fundamentals offering, including specialist insight from LSEG’s World Bureau of Metal Statistics capabilities.
  • Our import and export coverage supports analysis of cross-border metal movements, regional demand signals and supply chain exposure. LSEG enables customers to use trade flow intelligence for monitoring markets, informing trading decisions, benchmarking analysis and modelling scenarios.
  • We describe this content through a 61-row data dictionary that sets out business elements, dimensional structures and element-level identifiers. LSEG standardizes fields such as element names, descriptions, short names, abbreviations, PermID references and language metadata to improve downstream usability.

Accessing the dataset

This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.

Real-Time Distribution System
Advanced Distribution Server (ADS) is the horizontally scalable distribution component within LSEG Real-Time Distribution System providing highly available services for tailored streaming and snapshot data, publication and contribution messaging with optional persistence, conflation and delay capabilities.
  • Data formats:
    • CSV, Delimited, Bitmap

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