# Global Import-Export Partner Pair Summary (Reference snapshot)

A reference profile for exporter-importer country pairs, covering distance, shared geographic or institutional ties, trade agreements, and selected buyer-market indicators.

## What one row represents
one exporter-importer country pair

## Included measures and context
- Distance and shared-border/language indicators
- Reported trade-agreement and membership indicators
- Selected buyer economic and business-entry measures

## Metric notes
- Values ending in pct are percentages.
- Country fields ending in ISO3 use three-letter ISO 3166-1 country codes.

## Fields
Column names are shown exactly as they appear in the Parquet file. The schema lists the same fields, and the sample file shows example values.

- `exporter_iso3` — `string`
- `importer_iso3` — `string`
- `distance_km` — `float64`
- `capital_distance_km` — `float64`
- `shares_land_border` — `uint8`
- `shares_official_language` — `uint8`
- `common_spoken_language_score` — `float64`
- `common_language_indicator` — `uint8`
- `shares_ethnic_language` — `uint8`
- `shared_common_colonizer` — `uint8`
- `shared_religion` — `uint8`
- `shared_legal_system` — `uint8`
- `has_wto_reported_fta` — `uint8`
- `buyer_is_wto_member` — `uint8`
- `buyer_is_eu_member` — `uint8`
- `buyer_biz_entry_days` — `float64`
- `buyer_biz_entry_cost` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_mn_latest` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_pc_latest` — `float64`
- `buyer_population_latest` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_source_year` — `uint16`
- `buyer_investment_rate` — `float64`
- `buyer_savings_rate` — `float64`
- `buyer_edu_secondary` — `float64`
- `buyer_edu_tertiary` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_mn_2030_proj` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_pc_2030_proj` — `float64`
- `buyer_population_2030` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_mn_growth_pct` — `float64`
- `buyer_gdp_pc_growth_pct` — `float64`
- `buyer_pop_growth_pct` — `float64`

## Coverage and size
- Coverage: Reference snapshot without a trade-year column
- Records: 50,176
- Parquet file size: 618 KB
- Release: 1.0.0
- SHA-256: `b617bec50d0d061e67a362d6c4dc4746fcb625941e5d87fb755aab99ca2d1704`

## Files
- `data.parquet` — complete dataset
- `manifest.json` — dataset description, coverage, record count, and download details
- `schema.json` — field names, row definition, included measures, and metric notes
- `sample.json` — example records
- `README.md` — these notes

## Read the Parquet file with Python
```python
import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_parquet("data.parquet")
print(data.head())
```

Install `pandas` and `pyarrow` if they are not already available: `python -m pip install pandas pyarrow`.

## Sources and related files
- OECD BIMTS HS2017-6D
- Dataset page: https://www.yugalinks.com/datasets/import-export/import-export-partner-pair-summary-v1/
- Original dataset record: https://huggingface.co/datasets/yugalinks/import-export-partner-pair-summary-v1