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africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-commodity

country_name stringclasses 1 value	country_iso3 stringclasses 1 value	commodity_code stringlengths 6 6	commodity stringlengths 14 263	year int64 2k 2.02k	flow stringclasses 1 value	trade_value_usd float64 0.24 625M
Benin	BEN	410229	410229 - Hides and skins; raw, of animals n.e.c. in this chapter, fresh, salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, (but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split	2,000	exports	13,075
Benin	BEN	140390	140390 - Other	2,000	exports	2,625
Benin	BEN	151110	151110 - Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified	2,000	exports	18,395
Benin	BEN	151190	151190 - Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	exports	2,862
Benin	BEN	151219	151219 - Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	exports	31,251
Benin	BEN	151229	151229 - Vegetable oils; cotton-seed oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	exports	872,617
Benin	BEN	151490	151490 - Other	2,000	exports	7,734
Benin	BEN	151590	151590 - Fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions n.e.c. in heading 1515; other than linseed, maize (corn), castor, sesame, microbial oils, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	exports	566
Benin	BEN	152000	152000 - Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes	2,000	exports	16,123
Benin	BEN	170199	170199 - Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter	2,000	exports	107,481
Benin	BEN	180690	180690 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa; n.e.c. in chapter 18	2,000	exports	17,830
Benin	BEN	190300	190300 - Food preparations; tapioca and substitutes thereof, prepared from starch in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar	2,000	exports	1,424
Benin	BEN	200290	200290 - Vegetable preparations; tomatoes, (other than whole or in pieces), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid	2,000	exports	275,350
Benin	BEN	200819	200819 - Nuts and other seeds; whether or not containing added sugar, other sweetening matter or spirit (excluding ground-nuts except in mixtures)	2,000	exports	1,353
Benin	BEN	220110	220110 - Waters; mineral and aerated, including natural or artificial, (not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured)	2,000	exports	10,157
Benin	BEN	220429	220429 - Wine; still, in containers holding more than 10 litres	2,000	exports	29,767
Benin	BEN	220710	220710 - Undenatured ethyl alcohol; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher	2,000	exports	4,118
Benin	BEN	220890	220890 - Spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages; n.e.c. in heading no. 2208	2,000	exports	5,603
Benin	BEN	230120	230120 - Flours, meals and pellets; of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates	2,000	exports	1,131
Benin	BEN	230230	230230 - Bran, sharps and other residues; of wheat, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof	2,000	exports	37,498
Benin	BEN	230610	230610 - Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of cotton seed oils	2,000	exports	1,927,016
Benin	BEN	240220	240220 - Cigarettes; containing tobacco	2,000	exports	36,436
Benin	BEN	240290	240290 - Cigars, cigarillos and cheroots; containing tobacco substitutes including the weight of every band, wrapper or attachment thereto	2,000	exports	2,925,324
Benin	BEN	250810	250810 - Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); bentonite, whether or not calcined	2,000	exports	3,500
Benin	BEN	251690	251690 - Monumental or building stone; n.e.c. in heading no. 2516, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape	2,000	exports	58,078
Benin	BEN	252329	252329 - Cement; portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured	2,000	exports	2,025,661
Benin	BEN	252390	252390 - Cement; hydraulic kinds n.e.c. in heading no. 2523	2,000	exports	14,734
Benin	BEN	260900	260900 - Tin ores and concentrates	2,000	exports	10,888
Benin	BEN	280421	280421 - Gases, rare; argon	2,000	exports	4,943
Benin	BEN	280429	280429 - Gases, rare; other than argon	2,000	exports	18,288
Benin	BEN	280430	280430 - Nitrogen	2,000	exports	1,955
Benin	BEN	280440	280440 - Oxygen	2,000	exports	64,827
Benin	BEN	290129	290129 - Acyclic hydrocarbons; unsaturated, n.e.c. in heading no. 2901	2,000	exports	8,738
Benin	BEN	300390	300390 - Medicaments; (not containing antibiotics, hormones, alkaloids or their derivatives), for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, (not packaged for retail sale)	2,000	exports	1,900
Benin	BEN	300590	300590 - Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles; (excluding adhesive dressings), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances, packaged for retail sale	2,000	exports	156,849
Benin	BEN	310210	310210 - Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; nitrogenous, urea, whether or not in aqueous solution	2,000	exports	6,285
Benin	BEN	310420	310420 - Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; potassic, potassium chloride	2,000	exports	3,152
Benin	BEN	330300	330300 - Perfumes and toilet waters	2,000	exports	22,982
Benin	BEN	330499	330499 - Cosmetic and toilet preparations; n.e.c. in heading no. 3304, for the care of the skin (excluding medicaments, including sunscreen or sun tan preparations)	2,000	exports	42,546
Benin	BEN	330520	330520 - Hair preparations; for permanent waving or straightening	2,000	exports	11,636
Benin	BEN	330720	330720 - Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations; personal deodorants and antiperspirants	2,000	exports	26,772
Benin	BEN	340111	340111 - Soap and organic surface-active products; in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, for toilet use (including medicated products)	2,000	exports	410
Benin	BEN	340119	340119 - Soap and organic surface-active products; in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, not for toilet use	2,000	exports	135,569
Benin	BEN	340120	340120 - Soap; in forms n.e.c. in item no. 3401.11	2,000	exports	509
Benin	BEN	410421	410421 - Other bovine leather and equine leather, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Bovine leather, vegetable pre-tanned	2,000	exports	787
Benin	BEN	410422	410422 - Other bovine leather and equine leather, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Bovine leather, otherwise pre-tanned	2,000	exports	10,897
Benin	BEN	410429	410429 - Other bovine leather and equine leather, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Other	2,000	exports	15,758
Benin	BEN	410511	410511 - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Vegetable pre-tanned	2,000	exports	7,652
Benin	BEN	410519	410519 - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Other	2,000	exports	113,844
Benin	BEN	410611	410611 - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Vegetable pre-tanned	2,000	exports	38
Benin	BEN	410619	410619 - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split :-- Other	2,000	exports	1,560,055
Benin	BEN	420500	420500 - Leather articles; n.e.c. in chapter 42, of leather or composition leather	2,000	exports	525
Benin	BEN	440349	440349 - Wood, tropical; other than dark red meranti, light red meranti meranti bakau and teak, in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated	2,000	exports	68,923
Benin	BEN	440399	440399 - Wood; in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated, n.e.c. in heading no. 4403	2,000	exports	29,857
Benin	BEN	440420	440420 - Wood; non-coniferous, split poles, piles, pickets, stakes, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; sticks for umbrellas, tool handles etc, roughly trimmed but not turned or bent; chipwood etc, hoopwood	2,000	exports	5,287
Benin	BEN	440729	440729 - Wood, tropical, n.e.c. in item no. 4407.2, sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm	2,000	exports	495,923
Benin	BEN	440799	440799 - Wood; sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, of a thickness exceeding 6mm, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, n.e.c. in heading no. 4407	2,000	exports	33,381
Benin	BEN	440920	440920 - - non-Coniferous	2,000	exports	2,146,645
Benin	BEN	441510	441510 - Wood; cases, boxes, crates, drums, similar packings and cable-drums	2,000	exports	1,592
Benin	BEN	441520	441520 - Wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards; pallet collars	2,000	exports	1,181
Benin	BEN	441820	441820 - Wood; doors and their frames and thresholds	2,000	exports	2,321
Benin	BEN	441890	441890 - -Other	2,000	exports	1,132
Benin	BEN	441900	441900 - Tableware and kitchenware, of wood.	2,000	exports	1,153
Benin	BEN	442010	442010 - Wood; statuettes and other ornaments of wood	2,000	exports	10,221
Benin	BEN	442190	442190 - -Other	2,000	exports	9,180
Benin	BEN	460199	460199 - Plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials; products of non-vegetable materials	2,000	exports	85,445
Benin	BEN	460210	460210 - - Of Vegetable materials	2,000	exports	11,189
Benin	BEN	481029	481029 - Paper and paperboard; coated with kaolin or other inorganic substances only, having more than 10% of mechanically processed fibres, (excluding light-weight paper), for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, in rolls or sheets	2,000	exports	1,557
Benin	BEN	481920	481920 - Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard	2,000	exports	22,194
Benin	BEN	481930	481930 - Paper and paperboard; sacks and bags of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or fibres, having a base of a width of 40cm or more	2,000	exports	17,829
Benin	BEN	481940	481940 - Paper and paperboard; sacks and bags, including cones, of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or fibres, having a base width less than 40cm	2,000	exports	74,211
Benin	BEN	482090	482090 - Paper or paperboard; stationery n.e.c. in heading no. 4820	2,000	exports	9,106
Benin	BEN	482110	482110 - Paper and paperboard; labels or all kinds, printed	2,000	exports	150,305
Benin	BEN	482390	482390 - Paper pulp, paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres; articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4823	2,000	exports	1,101
Benin	BEN	490199	490199 - Printed matter; books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter n.e.c. in item no. 4901.10 or 4901.91	2,000	exports	245,586
Benin	BEN	490599	490599 - Maps and hydrographic or similar charts; (printed other than in book form), including wall maps, topographical plans and similar	2,000	exports	1,091
Benin	BEN	490700	490700 - Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; cheque forms; banknotes, stock, share or bond certificates and the like of similar title	2,000	exports	219,891
Benin	BEN	491110	491110 - Printed matter; trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like	2,000	exports	142
Benin	BEN	491191	491191 - Printed matter; pictures, designs and photographs, n.e.c. in item no. 4911.10	2,000	exports	6,866
Benin	BEN	491199	491199 - Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911	2,000	exports	84
Benin	BEN	520100	520100 - Cotton; not carded or combed	2,000	exports	128,754,888
Benin	BEN	520299	520299 - Cotton; waste other than garnetted stock and yarn (including thread) waste	2,000	exports	584,565
Benin	BEN	520420	520420 - Cotton; sewing thread, put up for retail sale	2,000	exports	1,053
Benin	BEN	520790	520790 - Cotton yarn; (not sewing thread), containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, put up for retail sale	2,000	exports	221,798
Benin	BEN	520812	520812 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, plain weave, weighing more than 100g/m2 but not more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	1,473,072
Benin	BEN	520813	520813 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, weighing not more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	1,953
Benin	BEN	520819	520819 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, of weaves n.e.c. in item no. 5208.1, weighing not more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	365,104
Benin	BEN	950490	950490 - Games; articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, special tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, n.e.c. in heading 9504	2,000	exports	696
Benin	BEN	520852	520852 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, printed, plain weave, weighing more than 100g/m2 but not more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	1,178,057
Benin	BEN	520859	520859 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, printed, of weaves n.e.c. in item no. 5208.5, weighing not more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	23,669
Benin	BEN	520911	520911 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, plain weave, weighing more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	518,414
Benin	BEN	520929	520929 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, bleached, of weaves n.e.c. in item no. 5209.2, weighing more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	91,912
Benin	BEN	520932	520932 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, dyed, 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, weighing more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	5,171
Benin	BEN	520951	520951 - Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, printed, plain weave, weighing more than 200g/m2	2,000	exports	6,787
Benin	BEN	521051	521051 - Fabrics, woven; containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibres, weighing 200g/m2 or less, printed, plain weave	2,000	exports	11,320
Benin	BEN	521059	521059 - Fabrics, woven; containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibres, weighing 200g/m2 or less, printed, of weaves n.e.c. in item no. 5210.5	2,000	exports	57,199
Benin	BEN	521213	521213 - Fabrics, woven; of cotton, dyed, weighing not more than 200g/m2, n.e.c. in chapter 52	2,000	exports	11,638
Benin	BEN	521215	521215 - Fabrics, woven; of cotton, printed, weighing not more than 200g/m2, n.e.c. in chapter 52	2,000	exports	134,092
Benin	BEN	521225	521225 - Fabrics, woven; of cotton, printed, weighing more than 200g/m2, n.e.c. in chapter 52	2,000	exports	42,803
Benin	BEN	540793	540793 - Fabrics, woven; of synthetic filament yarn, of yarns of different colours, n.e.c. in heading no. 5407	2,000	exports	16,980

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Benin — Exports by Commodity (HS6) | Africa (UN Comtrade)

🌍 35,948 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 35,948 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 2673 distinct indicators.

About the source

Source: UN Comtrade
Publisher: United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade)
License: other
Topic: International merchandise trade

Geographic coverage

1 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`Benin`	35,948	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

010119 — 010119 - Horses :-- Other
010121 — 010121 - Horses; live, pure-bred breeding animals
010210 — 010210 - - Pure-bred breeding animals
010290 — 010290 - Bovine animals; live, other than cattle and buffalo
010410 — 010410 - Sheep; live
010511 — 010511 - Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not more than 185g
010515 — 010515 - Poultry; live, guinea fowls, weighing not more than 185g
010519 — 010519 - -- Other
010599 — 010599 - Poultry; live, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, weighing more than 185g
010611 — 010611 - Mammals; live, primates
... and 2663 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Benin`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`BEN`
`commodity_code`	`string`	—	`410229`
`commodity`	`string`	—	`410229 - Hides and skins; raw, of ani…`
`year`	`int64`	—	`2000`
`flow`	`string`	—	`exports`
`trade_value_usd`	`float64`	—	`13075.0`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-commodity")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_name"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "410229"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="410229")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "410229"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_benin_exports_by_commodity_2023,
  title        = {Benin — Exports by Commodity (HS6) | Africa (UN Comtrade)},
  author       = {United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade)},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://comtradeplus.un.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-commodity}}
}

License

Released under other.

Original data © United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-17 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://comtradeplus.un.org/

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