Each month, more than 2 million ‘reporter/partner/product’ combinations for each flow (import and export) are extracted from the COMEXT database, validated and transformed in order to calculate the indices and store back again in COMEXT.

The SATIE ‘Seasonal Adjustment, Trends and Indices for the External Trade’ module of the application is the new version of the prototype which manages more than 4000 series of external trade data of the European Union.