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Part I. Compilers Manual
INTRODUCTION ............................................... 1-7 3
Conceptual and institutionalframework
Chapter 1. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ........................... 8-12 5
Chapter 2. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK ......................... 13-35 7
2.1 Roles of national statistical offices, customs and other
national agencies .................................. 13-31 7
A. Legal framework for data compilation ............... 13-15 7
B. Institutional arrangements ................ ........... 16-28 7
C. Cooperation among agencies ...................... 29-31 8
2.2 Institutional arrangements in the case of customs unions .... 32-35 9
Data sources
Chapter 3. CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS AND RELATED CUSTOMS RECORDS . 36-70 11
3.1 Provisions in World Customs Organization (WCO) instruments
regarding customs declarations and procedures ........... 36-62 11
A. General ...................................... 36-37 11
B. Customs procedures under the Kyoto Convention ...... 38-50 11
C. Verification of the declared information .............. 51-53 13
D. Lodgement of declarations and data-collection issues ... 54-59 14
E. The revision of the Kyoto Convention ............... 60-62 15
3.2 Other customs declarations and procedures ............... 63-65 15
3.3 Information required to complete a goods declaration ...... 66-67 15
3.4 Training in how to complete customs documents .......... 68 17
3.5 Reporting thresholds and retention of records ............. 69-70 17
Chapter 4. NON-CUSTOMS SOURCES OF DATA ..................... 71-90 18
4.1 Foreign shipping manifests ........................... 72-73 18
4.2 Currency exchange records and records of monetary
authorities ....................................... 74-77 18
4.3 Parcel post and letter post records ...................... 78-82 18
4.4 Aircraft and ship registers ........................... 83-88 19
4.5 Reports of commodity boards ......................... 89 19
4.6 Administrative records associated with taxation ........... 90 20
4.7 Enterprise surveys .................................. 91-97 20
4.8 Merging and cross-checking data obtained from customs
and non-customs sources ............................ 98-99 20
Data compilation
Chapter 5. COVERAGE AND TIME OF RECORDING .................. . 100-131 23
5.1 Concepts related to definition of coverage ............... 100-107 23
5.2 Time of recording .................................. 108-112 24
5.3 Data compilation in the case of selected categories
of goods to be included in trade statistics ................ 113-126 24
5.4 Goods excluded from trade statistics .................... 127 26
5.5 Data collection for national accounts and balance-of-
payments purposes .................................. 128-131 26
Chapter 6. TRADE SYSTEMS ................................... 132-137 28
Chapter 7. COMMODITY CLASSIFICATIONS ........................ 138-185 29
7.1 The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding
System as the primary commodity classification for
data-collection purposes ................ ............. 138-164 29
7.2 Selected issues of HS application ....................... 165-172 32
7.3 Analytical classifications (for use) in international
merchandise trade statistics ........................... 173-177 33
7.4 Correlation tables between different classifications ........ 178-185 33
Chapter 8. STATISTICAL VALUE OF GOODS ........................ 186-211 35
8.1 Statistical value and its components ..................... 186-190 35
8.2 Compilation of the statistical value of imported goods ...... 191-195 35
8.3 Uses of free on board value of imported goods and
collection of data on costs of insurance and freight ........ 196-201 36
8.4 Compilation of statistical values of exported goods ......... 202-209 37
8.5 Valuation of selected categories of imported and
exported goods ................. ................... 210 38
8.6 Issues of currency conversion ......................... 211 38
Chapter 9. QUANTITY MEASUREMENTS ........................... 212-217 39
9.1 WCO standard units of quantity ............ ............... 212 39
9.2 Conversion factors from non-standard to standard
units of quantity ................. .................. 213-217 39
Chapter 10. PARTNER COUNTRY ATTRIBUTION ..................... 218-235 40
10.1 Country of origin and its use in import statistics ........... 218-224 40
10.2 Country of last known destination and its use in
export statistics .................................... 225-228 41
10.3 Country of consignment ............................. 229 41
10.4 Definitions of partner for intra-trade in customs unions ..... 230-232 41
10.5 Country definitions and codes for statistical purposes ....... 233-235 41
Chapter 11. ISSUES OF DATA QUALITY CONTROL ...................... 236-260 43
A. Registration errors ............................... 237-250 43
B. Processing errors ................................ 251-260 44
Data dissemination, reconciliation and exchange
Chapter 12. DATA DISSEMINATION .............................. 261-266 47
12.1 Dissemination practices .............................. 261 47
12.2 Provision of data to compilers of national accounts
and balance-of-payments statistics ...................... 262-266 47
Chapter 13. DATA RECONCILIATION AND EXCHANGE ............... 267-302 49
13.1 Data reconciliation .................................. 267-291 49
13.2 Data exchange ................................... 292-302 51
Chapter 14. INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS, NATIONAL
ACCOUNTS AND BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS STATISTICS ............ 303-308 53
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: International trade Statistics Handbooks, manuals, etc