Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Measuring Globalisation Statistics (Data download: 18th-24th Nov 2015 ). UK Data Service.

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The TEC data are collected in co-operation with Eurostat, directly from the NSOs, through a linkage exercise of trade and business registers made. Data in export/import values and in number of exporting/importing enterprises are available for 19 EU member states (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden), plus Canada, Norway, Israel and the Unites States.

Reporter Country coverage:

Israel:

The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

Germany:

Germany (code DEU) was created 3 October 1990 by the accession of the Democratic Republic of Germany (code DDR) to the then Federal Republic of Germany (code DEW).

Cyprus:

1. Footnote by TurkeyThe information in this database with reference to "Cyprus" relates to the southern part of the Island. There is no single authority representing both Turkish and Greek Cypriot people on the Island. Turkey recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Until a lasting and equitable solution is found within the context of United Nations, Turkey shall preserve its position concerning the "Cyprus issue".

2. Footnote by all the European Union Member States of the OECD and the European Union
The Republic of Cyprus is recognized by all members of the United Nations with the exception of Turkey. The information in this database relates to the area under the effective control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.

United States:

The merchandise trade data are compiled from the documents collected by the U.S. Customs Border and Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. Foreign Trade Zones. They include government and non-government shipments of goods, and exclude shipments between the United States and its territories and possessions, transactions with U.S. military, diplomatic and consular installations abroad, U.S. goods returned to the United States by its Armed Forces, personal and household effects of travelers, and in-transit shipments. Exports are valued at the f.a.s.- free alongside ship value of merchandise at the U.S. port of export, based on the transaction price including inland freight, insurance, and other charges incurred in placing the merchandise alongside the carrier at the U.S. port of exportation.

The exporter profiles are compiled by using company identifiers or company names on export documentation to electronically link export trade data to company characteristics in the Business Register, the U.S. Census Bureau's data base of company information. The Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau (Census Bureau) publishes the exporter profiles. The International Trade Administration (ITA) is a partial sponsor of the work, providing both financial assistance and advice on data user needs. (www.ita.doc.gov) Effective with the 1997/1998 report, companies are classified according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

For the reference year 2005, the source of information that was used to create these tables comes from the "Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies, 2004-2005". This report can be obtained at the following website: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/edb/2005/

Concepts & Classifications

The United States uses the general trade system for recording export statistics. Information on U.S. exports of merchandise from the U.S. to all countries, except Canada, is compiled either electronically from the Automated Export System (AES) or from paper copies of Shipper's Export Declarations (SEDs).

The United States is substituting Canadian import statistics for U.S. exports to Canada in accordance with a 1987 Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Census Bureau, CBP, Canadian Customs, and Statistics Canada. Similarly, under this Memorandum of Understanding, Canada is substituting U.S. import statistics for Canadian exports to the United States. This data exchange includes only U.S. exports destined for Canada and does not include shipments destined for third countries by routes passing through Canada or shipments of certain grains and oilseeds to Canada for storage prior to exportation to a third country. These shipments are reported on the AES or SEDs.

Department of Defense Military Assistance Program Grant Aid shipments being transported as Department of Defense cargo are reported directly to the Census Bureau by the Department of Defense.

The central issue of trade by enterprise characteristics is to try to classify trade operators according to enterprise characteristics and the feasibility of doing so largely depends on the possibility of using or developing common identifiers between the trade register and the business register. Countries are different in their ability to perform such a linking, and matching ratios (between business and trade registers) vary between countries, thus the degree of representativeness of the results varies between countries.

Comparability:

EU countries report trade data against Intra- and extra- EU, whereas non EU countries report their Total trade.

Data availability:

- Germany: no data for extra-EU trade.
- Romania: no breakdown into intra- and extra-EU trade before 2007 because data refers to periods before Romania's accession to the European Union.
- Norway: all data refer to extra-EU trade.
- United States: data for exports only.

Confidentialisation:

The tables have been subject to confidentialisation procedures. Many figures had to be suppressed due to confidentialisation issues, especially on 2-digit-levels, for countries with few traders firms.

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