This file contains a listing of commodities in the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), version 15.1101. The UNSPSC is a four-level taxonomy for the classification of products and services, provided by the United Nations Development Programme. In the taxonomy, the Segment is the most general element and the Commodity is the most specific. One example is listed below:
Segment:
41000000
Laboratory and Measuring and Observing and Testing Equipment
Family:
41110000
Measuring and observing and testing instruments
Class:
41116200
Patient point of care testing supplies and equipment
Commodity:
41116201
Glucose monitors or meters
Each T2 example is classified under this taxonomy; the “Commodity Code” and “Commodity Title” columns in the Tools and Technology file can be used as a cross-reference into this file.
The file is displayed in 8 tab delimited fields with the columns named Commodity Code, Commodity Title, Class Code, Class Title, Family Code, Family Title, Segment Code, and Segment Title. The 8 fields are represented by one row. There are a total of 4,300 rows of data in this file.
