An EU harmonised survey to collect information on external trade transactions directly from importers and exporters introduced in January 1993 when Customs controls were discontinued on the completion of the EU Single Market.
Was established in 1946 under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The purpose of the Convention is to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry. The main duty of the IWC is to keep under review and revise as necessary the measures laid down in the schedule to the Convention which govern the conduct of whaling throughout the world.
In the United Nations context when used in the plural, it usually refers to the: (1) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY);(2) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
International Trade Statistics (or ITS) is one of the Data Sources to compile BOP Statistics. ITS measure the quantities and values of goods that add to or subtract from a nation's stock of goods as a result of movement into or out of a country. These data are compiled from forms submitted (by exporters, importers, or their agents) to custom officials or directly to the ITS compiler.
Before the publication of the Trade in Services Manual, the conventional statistical meaning of international trade in services was that described in the IMF Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth edition (BPM5), which defines international trade in services as being between residents and non-residents of an economy. This also corresponds very closely to the concept of trade in services in the “rest of the world” account of the 1993 System of National Accounts. Such trade is described in Chapter III of this Manual. This concept of international trade in services combines with the concept of international trade in goods, to form international trade in goods and services in the BPM5 current account. But, it is not always practical to separate trade in goods from trade in services. Services differ from goods in a number of ways, most commonly in the immediacy of the relationship between supplier and consumer. Many services are non-transportable; i.e. they require the physical proximity of supplier and customer, for example, the provision of a hotel service requires that the hotel is where the customer wishes to stay, a cleaning service for a business must be provided at the site of the business, and a haircut requires that both hairstylist and client be present. For international trade in such non-transportable services to take place, either the consumer must go the supplier or the supplier must go to the consumer. International trade agreements concerning services, in particular those embodied in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), make provision for agreement on suppliers moving to the country of the consumer. To reflect this type of trade, the Manual extends the definition of international trade in services to include the value of services provided through foreign affiliates established abroad, described here as Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services (FATS). Services are also supplied by individuals located abroad, either as service suppliers themselves or employed by service suppliers including those in the host country. A large part of this type of trade in services is covered by the BPM5 and FATS frameworks.
Originally established by the old GATT and is now operated jointly by the WTO and the UN, the latter acting through UNCTAD. Focal point for technical cooperation on trade promotion of developing countries.
The two main data items used in the concept of international trade are imports and exports.
Imports of goods measures the value of goods that enter the domestic territory of a country irrespective of their final destination.
Exports of goods similarly measures the value of goods which leave the domestic territory of a country, irrespective of whether they have been processed in the domestic territory or not.
Imports (and exports) of services reflect the value of services provided to residents of other countries (or received by residents of the domestic territory)
Geneva-based group of some 20 developing country exporters of textiles and clothing.
This classification is the international standard for the classification of productive economic activities. The main purpose is to provide a standard set of economic activities so that entities can be classified according to the activity they carry out.
A term used in association with additive aggregation methods. In the course of expressing the expenditures on basic headings in a common currency, additive aggregation methods value the expenditures at international prices, where an international price for a basic heading is defined as the average of the national prices for the basic heading prevailing in participating countries. The average may be weighted or unweighted, PPP adjusted or unadjusted. It may be an average of prices or an average of price structures.
