Contrary to previous years, world total services trade increased less rapidly (13 per cent) than merchandise trade (16 per cent) in 2003.

The trade deficit. Yes, the US runs a massive trade deficit with China around 295 billion in 2011, or fully 40 of America s total merchandise trade gap of 738 billion.

Items for information international merchandise trade statistics

Indeed, if foreign owned enterprises exports are deducted from the total trade volume, the surplus vanishes, because both the overall balance of merchandise trade and the balance of trade in services normally run deficits.

Report of the Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics

In 2004, total merchandise exports of the ESCWA member countries reached 297 billion, while total imports reached 194 billion.

International Merchandise Trade Statistics Compilers Manual (Compilers Manual)4 was released in 2004.

In the year to June 2009, dairy products accounted for 21 percent ( 9.1 billion) of total merchandise exports, and the country's largest company, Fonterra, controls almost one third of the international dairy trade.

Development of the inter agency Common Data Set (CDS) on total merchandise exports and imports by country.

The Statistics Division is developing a worldwide database for trade in services in cooperation with OECD to complement the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade) merchandise trade database.

The Statistical Commission addressed issues of international merchandise trade statistics at its thirty fourth and thirty fifth sessions.

It recommends SITC, Rev.4, for use in the analysis of international merchandise trade by interested countries and international organizations.

However, with a growth rate significantly higher than for total retail trade, the share of e commerce in total retail trade is also growing.

Trade within Asia now accounts for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

According to World Bank estimates, complete elimination of all merchandise trade restrictions would ultimately boost developing country incomes by no more than 1 .

Strengthening the development of international merchandise trade statistics and e commerce in member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Statistical Territories of the World for Use in International Merchandise Trade Statistics7 is available as a publication and also online through the Internet.

The treaty was created to extend the multilateral trading system to service sector, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for merchandise trade.

Indeed, intra EU trade today accounts for nearly two thirds of EU member states total trade.

The Common Data Set (CDS) on total merchandise exports and imports by country, developed through a joint data ownership with shared responsibilities, was launched in 2001.

In 2009, ASEAN regional trade represented 24.6 of its members total exports and 24.3 of total imports.

The European Union makes up 60 of the total trade.

The improved capacity of ESCWA member countries for the production and utilization of international merchandise trade statistics is an important element of the region's development.

Trade between India and American is increasing, and reached 26 billion (11 of India s total trade) in 2006.

Evidence shows that growth in ICT goods and services trade has been higher than growth in total trade.

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

The Statistics Division is investigating possible linkage of DQAF with its questionnaire on countries' compliance with the second revision of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts and Definitions.

Nowadays, India accounts for less than 5 of Pakistan s total trade turnover.

As a result, growth in intra regional trade has outpaced overall trade growth, with intra Asian trade now accounting for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

According to UNCTAD, in 2003, the shares of landlocked developing countries in total exports and imports of world merchandise remained very small, 0.57 per cent and 0.64 per cent, respectively.

The US accepted the lower valuation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it earned from bilateral merchandise trade by financing America s budget deficit.

The Task Force had contributed to the preparation of this companion document to the second revision of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts and Definitions,5 published in 1998.

The details of those standards can be found in the room paper entitled Joint UN OECD System for collection and processing of international merchandise trade statistics (Joint System) .

Palestinian net imports from Israel represent two thirds of the total trade deficit.

Prepared by the World Trade Organization (convener). In 2003, the Task Force on International Trade Statistics decided to change its name to Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics to distinguish itself from the inter agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services convened by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Trade among developing countries is now growing faster than their trade with developed countries and accounts for over 40 per cent of the total trade of the South.

For the period 2000 2003, trade in services represented 16 per cent of the total trade of developing countries, expanding at the same pace as their trade in goods.

Intra African trade is only about 11 per cent of total trade, the lowest among world regions however, it has doubled since 1980.

Report of the United Nations Statistics Division and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the Joint United Nations OECD System for collection and processing of international merchandise trade statistics

This set of agreements, standards and applications is referred to by both organizations as the Joint United Nations OECD System for collection and processing of international merchandise trade statistics (Joint System).

(e) Organizing three regional seminars with ESCWA on international merchandise trade statistics and on e commerce compilation to discuss the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the reviews undertaken and to facilitate networking.

In Latin America, South South trade represents about 15 per cent of total trade, which is recovering rapidly from the severe economic crisis of 2001.

The net value added of total Chinese foreign trade accounts for only about 15 of GDP.

Thirty million jobs in Europe (about 10 of the total work force) depend on foreign trade.

Owing to primary sector domination, intraregional trade accounts for only 7 8 per cent of total ESCWA trade, although countries differ considerably in their reliance on trade among the ESCWA member countries.