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africa-comtrade-benin-imports-by-commodity

country_name stringclasses 1 value	country_iso3 stringclasses 1 value	commodity_code stringlengths 6 6	commodity stringlengths 13 263	year int64 2k 2.02k	flow stringclasses 1 value	trade_value_usd float64 0.03 926M
Benin	BEN	220850	220850 - Gin and geneva	2,000	imports	598,059
Benin	BEN	220860	220860 - Vodka	2,000	imports	7,920
Benin	BEN	220870	220870 - Liqueurs and cordials	2,000	imports	131,152
Benin	BEN	220890	220890 - Spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages; n.e.c. in heading no. 2208	2,000	imports	651,316
Benin	BEN	220900	220900 - Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar; obtained from acetic acid	2,000	imports	37,034
Benin	BEN	230110	230110 - Flours, meals and pellets; of meat or meat offal, greaves	2,000	imports	13,329
Benin	BEN	230120	230120 - Flours, meals and pellets; of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates	2,000	imports	59,213
Benin	BEN	210130	210130 - Chicory, roasted and other roasted coffee substitutes; extracts, essences and concentrates thereof	2,000	imports	22,348
Benin	BEN	210120	210120 - Extracts, essences and concentrates; of tea or mate, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of tea or mate	2,000	imports	1,470
Benin	BEN	210112	210112 - Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee	2,000	imports	4,529
Benin	BEN	210111	210111 - Extracts, essences and concentrates; of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee	2,000	imports	71,610
Benin	BEN	200990	200990 - Juices; mixtures of fruits or vegetables (but not nut juice), unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter	2,000	imports	170,395
Benin	BEN	200980	200980 - - Juice of any other single fruit or vegetable	2,000	imports	106,572
Benin	BEN	200970	200970 - Apple juice	2,000	imports	13,727
Benin	BEN	200960	200960 - Grape juice (including grape must)	2,000	imports	14,051
Benin	BEN	200950	200950 - Juice; tomato, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter	2,000	imports	277
Benin	BEN	200940	200940 - Pineapple juice	2,000	imports	11,801
Benin	BEN	200590	200590 - - Other vegetables and Mixtures Of vegetables	2,000	imports	181,315
Benin	BEN	200580	200580 - Vegetable preparations; sweetcorn (zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	12,763
Benin	BEN	200570	200570 - Vegetable preparations; olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	94,985
Benin	BEN	200560	200560 - Vegetable preparations; asparagus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	412
Benin	BEN	200559	200559 - Vegetable preparations; beans, (not shelled), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	37,864
Benin	BEN	200551	200551 - Vegetable preparations; beans, shelled, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	1,408
Benin	BEN	200540	200540 - Vegetable preparations; peas (pisum sativum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	84,068
Benin	BEN	200520	200520 - Vegetable preparations; potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	6,175
Benin	BEN	200510	200510 - Vegetable preparations; homogenised vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen	2,000	imports	19,415
Benin	BEN	200490	200490 - Vegetable preparations; vegetables and mixtures of vegetables (excluding potatoes), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen	2,000	imports	829
Benin	BEN	200410	200410 - Vegetable preparations; potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen	2,000	imports	2,790
Benin	BEN	190420	190420 - Food preparations; obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals	2,000	imports	11,724
Benin	BEN	190410	190410 - Food preparations; obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products	2,000	imports	18,877
Benin	BEN	190240	190240 - Food preparations; couscous	2,000	imports	336,515
Benin	BEN	190230	190230 - Food preparations; pasta (excluding stuffed), cooked or otherwise prepared	2,000	imports	1,881,594
Benin	BEN	190220	190220 - Food preparations; pasta, stuffed (with meat or other substances), whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared	2,000	imports	226
Benin	BEN	190219	190219 - Food preparations; pasta, uncooked (excluding that containing eggs), not stuffed or otherwise prepared	2,000	imports	1,517,262
Benin	BEN	190211	190211 - Food preparations; pasta, containing eggs, uncooked, not stuffed or otherwise prepared	2,000	imports	2,170
Benin	BEN	190190	190190 - Food preparations; of flour, meal, starch, malt extract or milk products, for uses n.e.c. in heading no. 1901	2,000	imports	16,759
Benin	BEN	190120	190120 - Food preparations; mixes and doughs for the preparation of bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares	2,000	imports	5,056
Benin	BEN	190110	190110 - Food preparations; of flour, meal, starch, malt extract or milk products, suitable for infants or young children, put up for retail sale	2,000	imports	161,235
Benin	BEN	180690	180690 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa; n.e.c. in chapter 18	2,000	imports	118,705
Benin	BEN	180632	180632 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars, (not filled), weighing 2kg or less	2,000	imports	34,214
Benin	BEN	180631	180631 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars, filled, weighing 2kg or less	2,000	imports	1,571
Benin	BEN	180620	180620 - Chocolate & other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, content exceeding 2kg	2,000	imports	1,951
Benin	BEN	180610	180610 - Cocoa; powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter	2,000	imports	19,203
Benin	BEN	180500	180500 - Cocoa; powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter	2,000	imports	251
Benin	BEN	170490	170490 - Sugar confectionery; (excluding chewing gum, including white chocolate), not containing cocoa	2,000	imports	125,253
Benin	BEN	170410	170410 - Sugar confectionery; chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated, not containing cocoa	2,000	imports	27,772
Benin	BEN	170290	170290 - Sugars; n.e.c. in heading no. 1702, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing, in the dry state, 50% by weight of fructose	2,000	imports	3,438
Benin	BEN	170230	170230 - Sugars; glucose and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20% by weight of fructose, the syrup not containing added flavouring or colouring matter	2,000	imports	199
Benin	BEN	170199	170199 - Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter	2,000	imports	4,599,515
Benin	BEN	170191	170191 - Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, containing added flavouring or colouring matter	2,000	imports	405,983
Benin	BEN	170111	170111 - -- Cane sugar	2,000	imports	544
Benin	BEN	160590	160590 - - Other	2,000	imports	2,020
Benin	BEN	160520	160520 - - Shrimps and prawns	2,000	imports	1,005
Benin	BEN	160420	160420 - Fish preparations; fish minced or in forms n.e.c. in heading no. 1604, prepared or preserved	2,000	imports	1,947
Benin	BEN	160419	160419 - Fish preparations; fish prepared or preserved, whole or in pieces (but not minced), n.e.c. in heading no. 1604	2,000	imports	2,606
Benin	BEN	160100	160100 - Meat preparations; sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects, and food preparations based on these products	2,000	imports	32,211
Benin	BEN	152190	152190 - Waxes, other than vegetable, n.e.c. in heading no. 1521; whether or not refined or coloured	2,000	imports	148,878
Benin	BEN	151790	151790 - Edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, n.e.c. in heading 1517, other than edible fats and oils or their fractions of heading 15.16	2,000	imports	52,002
Benin	BEN	151710	151710 - Margarine; excluding liquid margarine	2,000	imports	2,253,038
Benin	BEN	151620	151620 - Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions; partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared	2,000	imports	939,185
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	imports	277,377
Benin	BEN	151530	151530 - Vegetable oils; castor oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	1,221
Benin	BEN	151529	151529 - Vegetable oils; maize (corn) oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	1,885
Benin	BEN	151519	151519 - Vegetable oils; linseed oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	535
Benin	BEN	151511	151511 - Vegetable oils; linseed oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified	2,000	imports	376
Benin	BEN	151490	151490 - Other	2,000	imports	635,532
Benin	BEN	151319	151319 - Vegetable oils; coconut (copra) oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	49
Benin	BEN	151311	151311 - Vegetable oils; coconut (copra) oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified	2,000	imports	180
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	imports	938
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	imports	41,085
Benin	BEN	151190	151190 - Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	1,768,290
Benin	BEN	151110	151110 - Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified	2,000	imports	940,762
Benin	BEN	151000	151000 - Vegetable oils; oils and their fractions n.e.c. in chapter 15, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of heading no. 1509	2,000	imports	5,615
Benin	BEN	150990	150990 - Vegetable oils; olive oil and its fractions, other than virgin, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	28,591
Benin	BEN	150910	150910 - Vegetable oils; olive oil and its fractions, virgin, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	4,662
Benin	BEN	150890	150890 - Vegetable oils; ground-nut oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	4,202
Benin	BEN	150790	150790 - Vegetable oils; soya-bean oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2,000	imports	49,261
Benin	BEN	140490	140490 - Vegetable products; n.e.c. in chapter 14	2,000	imports	8,820
Benin	BEN	130213	130213 - Vegetable saps and extracts; of hops	2,000	imports	352,267
Benin	BEN	130190	130190 - Natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins, n.e.c. in heading no. 1301	2,000	imports	315
Benin	BEN	121220	121220 - - Seaweeds and other algae	2,000	imports	870
Benin	BEN	121190	121190 - Plants and parts (including seeds and fruits) n.e.c. in heading no. 1211, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered	2,000	imports	15,838
Benin	BEN	121020	121020 - Hop cones; ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin	2,000	imports	160
Benin	BEN	120999	120999 - Seeds; n.e.c. in heading 1209, of a kind used for sowing	2,000	imports	12,336
Benin	BEN	120991	120991 - Seeds; vegetable seeds, of a kind used for sowing	2,000	imports	11,721
Benin	BEN	120930	120930 - Seeds of herbaceous plants; cultivated principally for their flowers, of a kind used for sowing	2,000	imports	3,446
Benin	BEN	120919	120919 - Beet seed :-- Other	2,000	imports	892
Benin	BEN	120799	120799 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; n.e.c. in heading no. 1207, whether or not broken	2,000	imports	82
Benin	BEN	120100	120100 - Soya beans, whether or not broken.	2,000	imports	212,942
Benin	BEN	110900	110900 - Wheat gluten; whether or not dried	2,000	imports	12,985
Benin	BEN	110819	110819 - Starch; n.e.c. in item no. 1108.11 to 1108.14	2,000	imports	88
Benin	BEN	110813	110813 - Starch; potato	2,000	imports	336
Benin	BEN	110710	110710 - Malt; not roasted	2,000	imports	1,680,955
Benin	BEN	110520	110520 - Flakes, granules and pellets; of potatoes	2,000	imports	1,683
Benin	BEN	110423	110423 - Cereal grains; worked (e.g. hulled, pearled, sliced or kibbled) of maize (corn)	2,000	imports	167,186
Benin	BEN	110311	110311 - Cereal groats and meal; of wheat	2,000	imports	1,701
Benin	BEN	110290	110290 - Cereal flours; other than wheat, meslin, and maize (corn)	2,000	imports	2,778
Benin	BEN	110220	110220 - Cereal flour; of maize (corn)	2,000	imports	2,406
Benin	BEN	110210	110210 - - Rye flour	2,000	imports	361
Benin	BEN	110100	110100 - Wheat or meslin flour	2,000	imports	4,773,992

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

🌍 192,089 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 192,089 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 5383 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`	192,089	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

010110 — 010110 - - Pure-bred breeding animals
010119 — 010119 - Horses :-- Other
010121 — 010121 - Horses; live, pure-bred breeding animals
010129 — 010129 - Horses; live, other than pure-bred breeding animals
010130 — 010130 - Asses; live
010190 — 010190 - Mules and hinnies; live
010210 — 010210 - - Pure-bred breeding animals
010229 — 010229 - Cattle; live, other than pure-bred breeding animals
010290 — 010290 - Bovine animals; live, other than cattle and buffalo
010310 — 010310 - Swine; live, pure-bred breeding animals
... and 5373 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Benin`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`BEN`
`commodity_code`	`string`	—	`220850`
`commodity`	`string`	—	`220850 - Gin and geneva`
`year`	`int64`	—	`2000`
`flow`	`string`	—	`imports`
`trade_value_usd`	`float64`	—	`598059.0`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-imports-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"] == "220850"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="220850")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "220850"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_benin_imports_by_commodity_2023,
  title        = {Benin — Imports 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-imports-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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