Distributive trade statistics

(b) Distributive trade statistics

(b) Distributive trade statistics

(e) International trade statistics

G. External trade

(h) International merchandise trade statistics

(h) International merchandise trade statistics

G. External trade . 50 11

External links Canada Year Book (2010) Statistics Canada Population estimates and projections, 2010 2036 Statistics Canada

Items for information international merchandise trade statistics

(m) Questionnaire on seaborne trade statistics (OECD).

C. External trade . 33 39 11

Source OECD, Financial and External Debt of Developing Countries, 1991 Survey UNCTAD, Handbook of International Trade and Development Statistics, 1992 and World Bank Atlas, 1991.

Items for discussion and decision distributive trade statistics

Handbook of International Trade and Development Statistics 1994.

Department of External Affairs and International Trade

External debt was closely linked to trade.

J. External debt and trade . 89 20

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.

Reconciliation of balance of payments and foreign trade statistics.

Supplementary notes prepared by the conveners were available on industrial and construction statistics, international trade statistics, price statistics and the International Comparison Programme, and environment statistics.

In 2005, the Statistics Division established the Expert Group on Distributive Trade Statistics in order to obtain assistance and guidance during the revision of existing United Nations recommendations on distributive trade statistics.

(a) Recurrent publications Handbook of International Trade and Development Statistics (annual) Yearbook of International Commodity Statistics Commodity Price Bulletin (monthly) Tungsten Statistics (quarterly) Iron Ore Statistics (annual) International Tin Statistics (quarterly)

Eurostat collects over 600 tapes from countries covering various areas of information, including external trade statistics, input output tables, balance of payments data, agricultural and social survey data.

C. Conclusions of the Expert Group on Distributive Trade Statistics

Report of the Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics

Trade statistics publications are provided to UNSTAT for some countries.

(i) Recurrent publications (9) Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics (2) Compendium of Social Statistics and Indicators External Trade Bulletin of the ESCWA Region (2) National Accounts Studies of the ESCWA Region (2) Statistical Abstract of the ESCWA Region (2)

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.

In 2004, the Statistics Division developed a multi year strategy for updating international recommendations on distributive trade statistics.

Perez, National Directorate of Services for External Trade, Panama

(r) External trade and balance of payments (Eurostat 12)

Strategy of the Statistics Division for updating international recommendations on distributive trade statistics and the status of its implementation

It was agreed that the Statistics Division should coordinate technical assistance in trade statistics focusing on methodology and implementation.

Only 73 countries confirmed that they compiled some distributive trade statistics.

Tapes containing standardized trade statistics are provided to ESCAP and ECLAC.

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).

There is no statistics kept according to gender in the Trade Unions.

For some commodities, potential trade dynamism is not visible in international statistics.

UNCTAD provides the World Bank with on line access to selected data on metals and minerals and provides UNSTAT with tin statistics, trade indexes and tapes containing international trade statistics.

It was agreed that the scope of distributive trade statistics should include wholesale trade, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

As for the dissemination of statistical information, in 1992 the statistics programme published editions of the Statistical Abstract of the ESCWA Region, the Bulletin of National Accounts and the External Trade Bulletin.

(c) Task Force on International Trade Statistics (Convener General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (E CN.3 1994 7)

Trade is the single most important external source of development financing.