Biotrade: A Python package to access and analyse the international trade of bio-based products

The aim of the biotrade package is to enable regular updates of agriculture, fisheries and forest products trade data from the international data sources of FAOSTAT and UN Comtrade. The software provides methods to join data across sources as well as to aggregate and rank the most important products and the most important countries, as well as geographical areas (e.g. continents). It also provides tools to assess the quality of the data, by comparing for example mirror flows or unit prices of trade. The package allows to store and update the collection of macroeconomic time series from the World Bank.

Updated source code available at https://gitlab.com/bioeconomy/forobs/biotrade/