Databases on international trade international data production and dissemination

The international community needs easy access to timely trade data.

The experts concluded that there was an apparent need to revise the current international recommendations on distributive trade statistics in order to reflect new developments in the distributive trade sector, changing data needs, availability of new data sources, data collection methods and recent revisions of the international recommendations in other areas of economic statistics.

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 new issues include the linkage of trade and business registers, reviewing data collection procedures for a number of goods categories (for example, goods for processing), developing further recommendations for data collection in cases where customs records do not exist or are not adequate for statistical purposes, the measurement of intra trade in regional trade agreements, or of intra firm trade (multinational enterprises), etc.

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

(a) Conducting four training workshops, on (a) international trade statistics, (b) agricultural commodities trade, including processing of trade data using the FAO software, (c) the construction of trade matrices and a standard format of electronic trade files and (d) international experience and good practices in international merchandise trade statistics, as shared by UNCTAD

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

The World Trade Organization is now disseminating trade profiles of economies combining trade flows with trade policy information sourced from within the World Trade Organization and other organizations and OECD has developed a prototype on trade indicators (trade plus production, employment, investment, etc.) linking standardized information from various OECD databases to trade data.

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

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.

This data is published by the Korea Agro Fisheries Food Trade Corp (aT) on Day 5.

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.

(c) Notes with satisfaction the publication of Kimberley Process trade and production data, welcomes the progress made towards the collection and submission of complete and accurate statistical reports on the production of and trade in rough diamonds, and encourages all of the Process Participants to continue to enhance the quality of data, and to respond promptly to Process analyses of these data

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

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

Pursuant to the OECD Statistics Division memorandum of understanding on shared data collection and, more recently, on joint data processing, OECD now shares detailed merchandise trade data for all its member countries with the Statistics Division and both organizations are engaged in the joint processing of those data (see E CN.3 2006 24).

(b) Also welcomes the progress made towards the collection and submission of statistical reports on the production of and trade in rough diamonds, encourages all of the Kimberley Process participants to enhance the quality of data, and to this end applauds the decision of the plenary meeting held in Gaborone to release Kimberley Process summary data on trade and production, by value and volume, and certificate counts for 2004 and 2005 data

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.

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.

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Trade data tell the story after increasing by about 7 annually in the decade before 2008, world trade fell faster than global GDP in 2009 (and more sharply than during the Great Depression). Once the brief stimulus fueled recovery faded, growth in world trade again slowed quickly, falling to 2 year on year over the past 18 months.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

(d) To support the work of the Statistics Division in building a worldwide database to store and disseminate distributive trade statistics in order to assist countries in making the most effective use of the compiled data, including measuring the structure and dynamic of their distributive trade on an internationally comparable basis.

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The NTB data incorporated in TRAINS indicate the existence of categories of NTBs classified according to the UNCTAD Coding System of Trade Control Measures (TCMCS) for particular products or groups of products.

Eurostat published a study entitled Differences between Balance of Payments and Foreign Trade Statistics.9 This helps to better focus on the conceptual differences in those two statistical systems and their reflection in compiled data.

t) Promote the collection of gender disaggregated data both qualitative and quantitative for nationally monitoring and evaluating the impact of globalisation and trade liberalization on women.

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The experts recognized a business register as an indispensable tool for effective data collection and concluded that statisticians dealing with distributive trade should participate actively in the maintenance creation of such a register.

Source Computations by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, based on World Bank, Global Development Finance and World Development Indicators, online data.