Monthly Data Releases and Data Updates

DataWeb only contains the public official U.S. merchandise trade statistics published by the U.S. Census Bureau in which individual company-level details are aggregated in such a way to not disclose confidential (firm-level) information. The firm-level data used to construct these statistics are maintained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If you wish to gain access to more detailed, company-level data you would have to submit your inquiry to CBP: https://www.cbp.gov/contact.

The Census Bureau revises historical data each June for the three immediately preceding calendar years. For example, in June 2024, Census published revisions impacting trade statistics impacting data for 2021, 2022, and 2023 calendar years. The USITC’s DataWeb incorporates these Census Bureau revisions shortly after their publication, but because they are revising thirty-six months of data it typically takes the USITC slightly more time to update the database than with the normal monthly releases. 

The data subject to these annual Census Bureau revisions are separately posted by the Census Bureau in a running spreadsheet format on its corrections page. Users wishing to know whether any specific country or HTS number may be impacted by a future Census Bureau revision release may check this website: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/corrections/index.html. If an error is discovered more than three years in the past, the correction will not be reflected in the official US trade data or in DataWeb.

Monthly data is released in DataWeb about three business days after the Census Bureau releases the data. Census’s release schedule can be found here: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedule.html.

If you have created an account, you can request to receive an email notification when the data is updated. To find this option, go to the Trade Dashboard, which is under the Trade heading on DataWeb’s main page (https://dataweb.usitc.gov/). This option only appears when you are logged in. There is a tab in the Trade Dashboard page called Notifications. You can select a toggle to receive email notifications within the Notifications tab.