Databases on international trade international data production and dissemination

The international community needs easy access to timely trade data.

The growing discrepancies between foreign trade data and port data have cast doubt on the reliability of the former.

For example, OECD has a history of expressing trade data in terms of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Statistics Division introduces trade data in terms of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC).

The perceived benefits of the new system are (a) inter agency standards on all details of data processing (b) harmonization of published international trade statistics (c) higher level of data quality (d) full accountability in the treatment of trade data and (e) availability of a complete set of metadata.

4.1 Establishment of a common database and a system of data exchange in trade and economic spheres.

UNCTAD secretariat computations based on UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data .

The World Trade Organization downloads data on its server and uses specific processing tools for the preparation of its annual trade statistics.

The Statistical Commission, recognizing the economic importance of distributive trade, acknowledging that the availability and quality of national data on distributive trade needs improvement and expressing concern regarding the international comparability of such data, may wish

Data on mergers and acquisitions (M As) point to South South trade through commercial presence.

Data for some African cities show that half of all protein consumed in urban areas comes from the bushmeat trade.

mbis) Strengthening the capacity of members to address illegal logging and related trade in tropical timber, including through improve forest law enforcement and governance and exchanging statistical data on trade

An Administrative Decision on use of the Kimberley Process Certificate based data by Participants when submitting trade data has been adopted at the KP plenary meeting in Moscow, thereby allowing to unify the approaches to compilation and analysis of statistical data.

During the period 2000 2001 a survey was conducted in 2nd and 3rd degree trade unions and federations concerning collection about numerical data of women's participation in the administration boards of trade unions.

And, indeed, recent data point to a rapidly worsening economic environment in Germany, where the trade surplus has shrunk dramatically in recent months.

In addition to information concerning the frequency of NTBs, they also make it possible to gather data on the relative importance of different measures, such as their trade restrictiveness or trade impact.

Depending on need, the Statistics Division and OECD may utilize other classifications for dissemination of trade data.

The backbone of the whole operation is the trade data processing application named COPRA (Commodity Processing application).

Clearly, trade data are being inflated as companies carry out fake transactions to bring capital into the country.

These data demonstrate conclusively that the exchange rate centered theory of the trade imbalance does not match reality.

Source UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, UNCTAD secretariat calculations based on UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data.

Source UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, UNCTAD secretariat calculations based on UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data.

(d) Preparation and updating of manuals, studies, guidelines, handbooks and software that assist in the compilation and processing of trade data, particularly online

In order that identical data may be disseminated to users of trade statistics, both Statistics Division and OECD databases will be permanently synchronized.

Indeed, the new regulations are essential to managing the renminbi s rapid appreciation and ensuring the accuracy of trade data.

By inflating export deals in order to move foreign currency mostly US dollars into China, firms have evaded capital controls and distorted trade data.

According to World Trade Organization data, Indonesia was the 27th biggest exporting country in the world in 2010, moving up three places from a year before.

Regarding data compilation, the experts agreed that high priority should be given to the identification and collection of data items needed by the distributive trade industry and by compilers of national accounts.

The World Trade Organization acted as a clearing house and organized the reconciliation of the data among different participating organizations.

The ITC Trade Analysis System for Personal Computer, available on CD ROM, provides the data on market conditions and product availability that businessmen would need to explore South South trade opportunities.

In the 1990s, Ulery served for many years as Pan American Delegate to the United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Trade (UN EDIFACT).

Since we do not dispose of available data, we assume that the owners of trade commerce stores are the most numerous ones in the group others .

Globalized production platforms distort bilateral trade data between the US and China, and have little to do with the exchange rate.

The US trade deficit has declined from 60 billion a month to just 26 billion, according to the most recent data.

The project is aimed at establishing a network within ESCWA member States that would assist countries in more effectively managing trade data and sharing knowledge and information.

On 1 January 2006, COPRA will become the production system for the processing of trade data at the Statistics Division and OECD.

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The agenda for the meeting included such items as (a) scope and classifications (b) statistical and reporting units (c) data items and their definitions (d) data sources and data collection methods (e) indices and performance indicators and (f) distributive trade statistics and compilation of national accounts.

(h) Tracking illegal trade in ODS may might be done through the inspection of producing plants and distributors by collecting data on purchased ODS and addresses of traders.

Upon completion of this activity, trade data of OECD member countries will be processed by OECD only and will be included in OECD and Statistics Division databases simultaneously.

As a result of the report submitted on this task, Plenary adopted an Administrative Decision that Participants should use Kimberley Process Certificate based data when submitting trade data, thereby improving the comparability of statistics provided by Participants.

These data demonstrate conclusively that the exchange rate centered theory of the trade imbalance does not match reality. China s economy over the past two years has become much more balanced in its external trade relationships, despite there being no significant exchange rate adjustments.

It organizes seminars, workshops, meetings and training centres, and it collects and disseminates data, statistics and information related to agricultural activities, trade and industry.

In March 2005, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a regulation to compile data on inward and outward Foreign Affiliate Trade in Services statistics for States members of the European Union.

Indeed, identifying sectors and modes of economic interest and the trade barriers to be removed is not an easy task in the absence of adequate data on the services sector.