Statistical Terms Glossary

An official document that records information on the trading of fish and fishery products. It includes the minimum data required by the guidelines and may include details of processing.

Encompasses all commodities of international trade.

Trade credits and advances are trade credit for goods and services extended directly to corporations, to government, to non-profit institutions, to households and to the rest of the world and also advances for work that is in progress (if classified as such under inventories) or is to be undertaken.

The date on which counterparties commit to a swap.

A scheme that documents verifiable information on fish trade from the point of landing through the entire export import chain to the final destination (usually point of sale).

A financing arrangement by commercial creditors in the form of linking financing to particular projects or trade operations in countries where they have long-term business interests. These facilities enable commercial banks to maintain closer ties with customers in both the debtor countries and industrial countries, while providing additional finance for a country's imports.

Said of a security issue traded at a price between the offering price and the offering price less the fees charged.

A trade margin is the difference between the actual or imputed price realised on a good purchased for resale (either wholesale or retail) and the price that would have to be paid by the distributor to replace the good at the time it is sold or otherwise disposed of.

Trade mark refers to words, symbols or other marks which are used by firms to distinguish their products or services from those offered by others.

Measures the importance of international trade in a country's macroeconomy. The world average is 56.4%. A higher ratio than the average means higher trade open economy that also depends increasingly on the global economy.

Is an indicator of welfare losses caused by commercial policy instruments.

There are two trade systems in common use by which international merchandise trade statistics are compiled the:

- general trade system, and the

- special trade system

Requirement that the investor use earnings from exports to pay for imports.

Selling or bartering goods or other assets.

The value of something which has to be given up in order to get something else which is desired. (e.g. the environmental cost incurred to obtain economic development). Sustainability can be evaluated by the sum of the various social, economic and natural resources where the degree of use, exchange and trading among resources will vary According to: the values given to each. Trade-off patterns are determined by the different properties of a system, and their importance to different groups. The understanding of social dynamics and resource-use systems and the evaluation of related trade-offs, in terms of equity, productivity, resilience, and environmental stability, are useful to envision alternative development scenarios.

Individual who buys and sells stock for own profit or for a corporation.

Buying and selling of securities or commodities for profit.

Trading gains and losses arise from changes in a country’s terms of trade; for example, if the prices of a country’s exports rise faster (or fall more slowly) than the prices of its imports (i.e. if its terms of trade improve) then an increased volume of imports of goods and services can be purchased by residents out of the receipts generated by a given level of exports.

Countries of origin and purchase in international merchandise trade transactions.

Purchase/sales order for a security.

Based on raising fish in ponds.

A defined benefits (DB) plan where benefits are linked through a formula to the members' wages or salaries, length of employment, or other factors

The local knowledge held by a group of indigenous people and passed from generation to generation on the nature and functioning of the ecosystem.