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  "title": "India trade data by country and product — The Raisina Post",
  "description": "Explore India's reported merchandise trade by partner, product chapter and year.",
  "language": "en-IN",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "The Raisina Post",
    "url": "https://theraisinapost.com/"
  },
  "scope": "Static main content from the canonical HTML page. Interactive results and third-party widgets are not included. Full articles remain at their original Substack URLs. Use each observation’s reference period, unit, source and status; export generation is not a data update.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Trade Ledger.",
      "level": 1,
      "url": "https://theraisinapost.com/trade-ledger/#section-trade-ledger"
    },
    {
      "heading": "India's merchandise trade",
      "level": 2,
      "url": "https://theraisinapost.com/trade-ledger/#trade-heading"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Source and limitations",
      "level": 2,
      "url": "https://theraisinapost.com/trade-ledger/#section-source-and-limitations"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "caption": "Matching Indian merchandise trade observations",
      "rows": [
        [
          "Period",
          "Partner",
          "Flow",
          "Commodity",
          "Value, USD"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "url": "https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS",
      "label": "UN Comtrade public preview API"
    }
  ],
  "markdown": "THE RAISINA POST / PUBLIC RECORDS\n\n# Trade Ledger.\n\nExplore India's reported merchandise trade by partner, product chapter and year.\n\nRead the primary source\n\nFigures are annual reported trade values in US dollars, not live transactions. A zero is not substituted for missing data.\n\n## India's merchandise trade\n\nUN Comtrade · annual merchandise records\n\nRequesting reported trade data…\n\nMatching Indian merchandise trade observations\n\n| Period | Partner | Flow | Commodity | Value, USD | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n## Source and limitations\n\nData comes from [UN Comtrade public preview API](<https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS>) under its free access and record limits. Reporter is India (code 699). The HS chapter or total aggregate and partner are preserved exactly as reported in each response.\n\nTrade is expressed in nominal US dollars and may be revised. Mirror trade statistics from partners need not match India's own reported data. This is a lookup, not a complete downloadable historical trade database; when the external API fails, only independently retrieved matching cached observations may be displayed.",
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