Syrian natural stone exports: open data (HS 2515, 2516, 6802)

Compiled by Phoenician Stone Group, this series gives the yearly value of Syria's natural and building stone exports (HS 2515, 2516 and 6802), 2005-2024, as recorded by importing countries: one sourced series for anyone sizing the Syrian stone trade, which Syria itself has not reported to UN Comtrade since 2010.

Yearly value of natural and building stone imported from Syria as reported by partner countries (HS 2515, 2516, 6802), 2005-2024, with Syria's own reported exports for 2005-2010. Derived from UN Comtrade.

Files

• syrian-stone-exports-v1.csv: 80 rows, 15,615 bytes

Limits

• The same partner-reported values as record 01 for HS 2515, 2516 and 6802 (checked cell by cell: no difference); kept as its own record because the site publishes it as its own dataset page.
• Mirror statistics, mostly CIF, current US dollars; the latest year (2024) is provisional.

Rights and credit

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Copyright 2026 Phoenician Stone Group for this compilation.

Third-party data carve-out. The partner-reported values are sums computed by Phoenician Stone Group across reporting countries and are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The column syria_reported_exports_usd (22 non-zero values, Syria's own reports for 2005-2010) reproduces single UN Comtrade records: those values are UN Comtrade data, copyright United Nations, included as a limited amount of data that UN Comtrade allows without permission (https://uncomtrade.org/docs/re-dissemination-of-data/); they remain subject to UN Comtrade terms (https://uncomtrade.org/docs/policy-on-comtrade-data-use/) and are not licensed by Phoenician Stone Group. No raw UN Comtrade records are included.

Attribution requested: Source: UN Comtrade (DESA/UNSD); compiled by Phoenician Stone Group.

Online: dataset page (English) https://phoenicianstone.net/guides/syrian-stone-export-data/; Arabic https://phoenicianstone.net/ar/guides/syrian-stone-export-data/; catalogue https://phoenicianstone.net/data/. The same files, with a data viewer: https://huggingface.co/datasets/phoenician-stone-group/syrian-natural-stone-open-data.

About the publisher

Phoenician Stone Group is a Syrian natural stone company, founded in 2004, with its own quarries and production in Syria and its sales and client service run from Europe. It quarries, processes and exports limestone, fossil limestone (shell stone), travertine and volcanic basalt, and supplies industrial minerals.

It publishes these data because buyers, specifiers and researchers have little reliable, sourced information on Syrian stone and its trade, and much of what circulates predates the changes in Syria's trade rules since 2025. Every figure is tied to a dated public source, so that it can be checked independently and corrected openly in a new version.

Disclosure: The figures describe Syria as a whole; they contain no volumes, prices or quarries of the company. Website: https://phoenicianstone.net/.

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• Exporting Syrian Stone: A Practical Guide for Buyers: from the first enquiry to the containers, what to agree in writing and which documents to expect.
• Syrian Stone, Sourced the European Way: how an order from the company's own quarries is checked, documented and handled by its sales team in Europe.
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How to cite: Phoenician Stone Group (2026). Syrian natural stone exports: open data (HS 2515, 2516, 6802) (version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108332