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While merchandise trade fell by 22 per cent in 2009 and 16 per cent cumulatively during the period 2015–2016, falls in services trade were less pronounced, at 11 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively. 12. (...) Developing countries’ share in services trade is about 15 percentage points lower when compared with their share in merchandise trade. While this suggests significant potential for these countries in services trade, it may also indicate sector-specific obstacles in their domestic and export markets, as well as their competitiveness in expanding market shares in services. (...) Trans-shipment ports must be close to a main shipping lane and may then become a gateway port, a logistics centre port, or, ideally, ideally all three (see figure 10). Once established, a trans-shipment port, backed up by the right government policies, can act as an enabler for other industries.

At the Vienna meeting, following the request of the Statistical Commission at its session in February 2008 (resolution 39/109) that the revised recommendations on the concept and definitions of international merchandise trade be harmonized to the extent possible with the updated recommendations regarding statistics of international trade in services, the Task Force held its first joint session with the inter-agency Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics. (...) A second joint meeting between the Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics and the Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services also took place in Bangkok. (...) A delay was proposed in the submission of the Manual to the Statistical Commission to allow harmonization with merchandise trade statistics recommendations to the extent possible.

This should be in smaller font size (ideally 6 or 8 points), in the top left-hand side of the field. (...) This could be the case on an invoice or a packing list, for example, where multiple types of merchandise need to be included in the document. When a continuation sheet is used, it only represents the section for goods details and customs purposes and must be accompanies by a first page based on the UNLK where the other three image areas are used as ‘header’ information which would be relevant for all merchandise on the continuation sheets.

It also presents ideas on the possible use of the Central Product Classification (goods part) for international merchandise trade statistics by the United Nations Statistics Division. (...) This would involve some classification for international merchandise trade statistics, development cost (both for computer systems and substantive the Commission will recall that the current explicit work), staff resources to provide reliable conversions from recommendation of the Commission is that countries should HS or SITC data to the new classifications, and operating compile and disseminate their international merchandise trade costs to process and convert data and maintain the Database. statistics according to HS, and that the Commission decided 15. (...) The experience of the United2 Nations Statistics Division experience to date is that (i) there have been no requests from users for international merchandise trade statistics according to CPC; (ii) no national statistical offices are known to be publishing their international merchandise trade statistics according to CPC; however, (iii) some international organizations have indicated that they would find trade data according to CPC useful.

Place and mode of delivery of merchandise are dealt with as a matter of major concern. (...) To o,wa.it lc:[‘,is 1:ition of the kind adopted in Czechoslovakia, or the development \I A/CN.9/14 English Annex Page 8 ” C.and I"., and C.I.F. contracts are not ideally suited). Similarly, air freight is now much more important in international trade than in 1953 and gives rise to a need for corresponding types of sale different from these up to now defined by the ICC. 299 Another aspect of the same problem would be that some Governments 'may be reluctant to leave the codification of international business practice in the hands of a private body such as the ICC.

Finally, definitions used for the collection and measurement of a given data may diverge from the ideal definition required for assessment purposes. (...) In nominal terms, the value of LDCs’ total merchandise exports increased from $83.3 billion in 2005 to $128.5 billion in 2007.10 The total merchandise imports of LDCs as a group increased from $87.9 billion in 2005 to $101.4 billion in 2006, shifting the trade balance for 2006 to positive territory by over $27 billion. In comparison, the value of total merchandise exports achieved in 2007 was $45.2 billion above the level in 2005 and $72 billion above the value in 2004.

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Jr,ended that tt.ese categories 'oe excluded from the main body of merchandise trade statistics but, vrhere ir,J:;::ortant, be made the subject of separate tabulations. (...) The outward flow of merchandise. It will be remembered that the expert group distinguished the following categories of merchandise in the beading "merchandise moving outward": (a) Withdrawn from customs storage warehouse: For re-export. (...) The inward flow of merchandise. The expert group distinguished tr,e follm·Jing categories in merchandise moving inward: (a) Entered directly: (l) For consumption; (2) For transformation.

The General Manager called the vendors, determined the quantities of merchandise to be ordered, authorized and approved purchases, received and stocked the delivered merchandise (and even certified its receipt in several cases), and then prepared and signed the disbursement voucher for payment. (...) Merchandise was ordered only when the stock reached nearly zero, indicating that no re-order points had been established. (...) Two instances were noted in which two separate deliveries of merchandise were recorded on the same receiving and inspection report.

The present report summarizes achievements, recent developments and planned activities by the SDMX initiative, in areas such as macroeconomic statistics, international merchandise trade statistics and the Sustainable Development Goals, among others. (...) The workplan of the Working Group has been approved and envisages setting up a pilot data exchange in the fourth quarter of 2017 and a production-level exchange of data and metadata by the end of 2018. International merchandise trade statistics 7. An inter-agency working group comprising Eurostat, the International Trade Centre, OECD, the Statistics Division (acting as the secretariat and Chair of the working group) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 2013 to support the implementation of SDMX standards in international merchandise trade statistics. The working group seeks to specify uniform structures, concepts, definitions and code lists fo r international merchandise trade statistics data and metadata that comply with the latest version of the SDMX standard (2.1) and follow the latest recommendations contained in the document entitled “International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions 2010” (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/52/Rev.3).