Data for "International Transport costs: New Findings from modeling additive costs"

<p>Downloading the data will provide you with a .zip file.</p> <p>These data are US imports from 1974 to 2020, by partner, transport mode and product at the 5 digit level in the "Hummels" data and by partner, transport mode, district of entry, district of unlading and product at the 10 digit level for the rest of the data.</p> <p>All the data originally come from the Census Bureau "Foreign Trade" (see https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html) and belong to the public domain.</p> <p>"Hummels_JEP _data" was downloaded from David Hummels&rsquo;s website (https://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/hummelsd/research/jep/data.html -- Hummels, David, "Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization", <em>Journal of Economic Perspectives</em>, Vol 21, No 3, pp 131-154. It covers 1974 to 2004.</p> <p>The other main files were bought directly from the Census Bureau ("Annual Merchandise Trade files"). They cover 1997-1999 and 2002-2020.</p> <p>Various files are included for the conversion of country codes (dist_cepii.dta, countrycodes_use.txt), product codes (HS2002_SITC2.txt) and to associate quantity units with hts codes (hts... and ..._hts_...).</p>