About Korea Trade Data

Korea Trade Data is an independent site that republishes South Korea's official trade statistics in English. The numbers come from the Korea Customs Service's open data on the Public Data Portal (data.go.kr), which is published in Korean. We download them, add English product and country names, and build a page for every HS chapter, every 4-digit heading and every partner country, a page for each larger product–country flow, and a report for every month.

What is covered

All goods: 96 HS chapters, 1,227 four-digit headings and 249 partner countries, for the last 24 months (November 2024 to October 2026). Six- and ten-digit codes are listed on each heading page as world totals.

A chapter–country page exists when exports reached $1,000,000 over those 24 months, and a heading–country page when they reached $5,000,000. Smaller flows appear in the tables on product and country pages.

Featured industry: Cosmetics

The cosmetics section adds 6- and 10-digit detail by country. It covers HS headings 3303, 3304, 3305 and 3307, plus toilet soap (3401.11) and skin cleansers (3401.30).

The cosmetics total used in that section is the sum of these HS codes:

• HS 3303.00 – Perfumes and toilet waters
• HS 3304.10 – Lip make-up preparations
• HS 3304.20 – Eye make-up preparations
• HS 3304.30 – Manicure and pedicure preparations
• HS 3304.91 – Powders for make-up or skin care, whether or not compressed
• HS 3304.99 – Other beauty, make-up and skin care preparations (including sunscreen)
• HS 3305.10 – Shampoos
• HS 3305.20 – Preparations for permanent waving or straightening
• HS 3305.30 – Hair lacquers
• HS 3305.90 – Other hair preparations
• HS 3307.10 – Shaving preparations
• HS 3307.20 – Personal deodorants and antiperspirants
• HS 3307.30 – Perfumed bath salts and other bath preparations
• HS 3307.90 – Other toiletry preparations (depilatories, sheet masks, contact lens solutions and others) (without HS 3307.90.3000)
• HS 3401.11 – Toilet soap, including medicated soap
• HS 3401.30 – Liquid or cream skin-washing products

Not counted in the total, but shown on their own pages: HS 3307.41 (Agarbatti and other incense that works by burning); HS 3307.49 (Other room perfuming or deodorizing preparations); HS 3307.90.3000 (Contact lens or artificial eye solutions). HS 3401.11 and 3401.30 are counted in the total and shown together as "Soap and cleansers".

Oral care (HS 3306), essential oils and fragrance mixtures (HS 3301, 3302) and laundry or other soap are not part of the cosmetics total; they have their own heading pages.

How the text is written

Every sentence on a data page is generated from the numbers on that page: changes from the previous month and from the same month a year earlier, shares and ranks. The site does not explain why a number moved and does not forecast. When an earlier figure is under $10,000, no percentage change is given, because tiny bases produce meaningless percentages.

What this site is not

It is not affiliated with the Korea Customs Service or any government agency, and it is not an official publication. For customs declarations, tariff classification or legal purposes, use the official sources.

See Data sources and methodology for definitions.