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From your oec.world source, "Human or Animal Blood is also known as vaccines, toxins. Human or Animal Blood is a 4 digit HS92 product." What does that even me

From your oec.world source, "Human or Animal Blood is also known as vaccines, toxins. Human or Animal Blood is a 4 digit HS92 product." What does that even mean? I think they're looping in vaccines and more in their human or animal blood category. https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/ https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/ Edit: among other things, they seem to be including all of the following as "human and animal blood", among others: * 300220 Vaccines; for human medicine * 300230 Vaccines; for veterinary medicine * 300290 Toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?code=3002 https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?code=3002

Nasrudith 7y ago
I wonder if that is a historical or legal artifact. Medicine wasn't always so refined to the point that the vaccines were pure pathogen in chemical carrier and didn't have some human specimen material trace or otherwise when isolating. Both for transport safety concerns and exemptions (no arresting the doctor for carrying vaccines even if he technically is guilty of transporting importing dissected human remains not fuffiling legal burial requirements when it takes a microscope to detect the human cells) would make sense.
Pete_D 7y ago
They offer data for direct download in finer resolution[0], here are the relevant figures from HS6 rev. 2007 (2008 - 2017) - Product Trade by Year and Country (6 digit depth): $ awk 'NR == 1 || ($1 == 2017 && $2 == "usa" && $3 ~ /3002../)' < year_origin_hs07_6.tsv year origin hs07 export_val import_val export_rca import_rca 2017 usa 300210 396430658.00 59890506.00 2.838 0.258 2017 usa 300220 1581667842.36 5492721193.76 0.829 1.734 2017 usa 300230 735316335.89 15520567.21 2.725 0.035 2017 usa 300290 24682749156.47 20875470805.73 2.452 1.249 So, $396M, assuming that 300210 is the sum of all the ones with "blood" in the descriptions from your HS code reference. "Human or animal blood" seems like an odd choice of abbreviation for "Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc"[1], but hey. (Though America still has a problem with exploiting poor people for blood products, even if it's not a billion dollar industry.) [0] https://oec.world/en/resources/data/ https://oec.world/en/resources/data/ [1] https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?cat=5 https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?cat=5
simoes 7y ago
Hello, I am the lead developer on the OEC. I was brought here by an open issue someone made referencing this article. @articfox you are 100% correct in that the data is factual (or as reported by source) but the text is missing some context. The HS product 3002 does include vaccines and this was missing from the label.

Nasrudith 7y ago

I wonder if that is a historical or legal artifact. Medicine wasn't always so refined to the point that the vaccines were pure pathogen in chemical carrier and didn't have some human specimen material trace or otherwise when isolating. Both for transport safety concerns and exemptions (no arresting the doctor for carrying vaccines even if he technically is guilty of transporting importing dissected human remains not fuffiling legal burial requirements when it takes a microscope to detect the human cells) would make sense.

Pete_D 7y ago

They offer data for direct download in finer resolution[0], here are the relevant figures from HS6 rev. 2007 (2008 - 2017) - Product Trade by Year and Country (6 digit depth): $ awk 'NR == 1 || ($1 == 2017 && $2 == "usa" && $3 ~ /3002../)' < year_origin_hs07_6.tsv year origin hs07 export_val import_val export_rca import_rca 2017 usa 300210 396430658.00 59890506.00 2.838 0.258 2017 usa 300220 1581667842.36 5492721193.76 0.829 1.734 2017 usa 300230 735316335.89 15520567.21 2.725 0.035 2017 usa 300290 24682749156.47 20875470805.73 2.452 1.249 So, $396M, assuming that 300210 is the sum of all the ones with "blood" in the descriptions from your HS code reference. "Human or animal blood" seems like an odd choice of abbreviation for "Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc"[1], but hey. (Though America still has a problem with exploiting poor people for blood products, even if it's not a billion dollar industry.) [0] https://oec.world/en/resources/data/ https://oec.world/en/resources/data/ [1] https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?cat=5 https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?cat=5

simoes 7y ago

Hello, I am the lead developer on the OEC. I was brought here by an open issue someone made referencing this article. @articfox you are 100% correct in that the data is factual (or as reported by source) but the text is missing some context. The HS product 3002 does include vaccines and this was missing from the label.