REPORT OF THE TASK FORCE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE STATISTICS : NOTE / BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
The United Nations Statistics Division collected information on national
practices in compiling and disseminating index numbers of merchandise trade. The
results of that survey will be issued as a United Nations publication (a draft of the
publication is under final review). (...) Inter-agency data set on aggregate merchandise trade
16. The Task Force has agreed to collaborate in the development of a joint data set
on aggregate merchandise exports and imports. (...) The
principal objectives of that collaborative effort are to bring about significant
improvements in the coverage, consistency, comparability and transparency of
aggregate merchandise trade statistics available for analysts, policy makers and
other users, and to provide national authorities with the possibility of reviewing the
use of their data in an international context.
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STATISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES : NOTE / BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
Worldwide consultations and joint sessions of the Task Force
on Statistics of International Trade and the Task Force on
International Merchandise Trade Statistics
7. Extensive consultations and review processes have been undertaken in the
preparation of the revised Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services. (...) Proposal for a joint
meeting of the Task Forces on International
Merchandise Trade Statistics and Statistics on
International Trade in Services was agreed.
2008
24-27 February, New York Review of Task Force activities by the
Statistical Commission.
25-27 March, Paris Comments on chapter 4 invited from the
OECD Workshop on International Investment
Statistics.
(...) 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.
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REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION AND THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE JOINT UNITED NATIONS/OECD SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS : NOTE / BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
.: General
14 December 2005
Original: English
05-64426 (E) 301205
*0564426*
Statistical Commission
Thirty-seventh session
7-10 March 2006
Item 4 (h) of the provisional agenda*
Items for information: international merchandise trade statistics
Report of the United Nations Statistics Division and
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development on the Joint United Nations/OECD
System for collection and processing of international
merchandise trade statistics
Note by the Secretary-General
In accordance with a request of the Statistical Commission at its thirty-third
session,** the Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the Commission, for
information, the report of the United Nations Statistics Division and the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the Joint
United Nations/OECD System for collection and processing of international
merchandise trade statistics. (...) The Statistics Division and OECD reviewed their data-processing procedures
and agreed on common data-processing standards. The details of those standards can
be found in the room paper entitled “Joint UN/OECD System for collection and
processing of international merchandise trade statistics (Joint System)”. A summary
of the agreed standards are provided below.

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS
The report provides a description
of the activities undertaken in response to the requests made by the Commission
regarding the implementation of the new recommendations for collection and
compilation of international merchandise trade statistics, as contained in
International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions, 2010. The
report presents the draft International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Compilers
Manual, Rev.1, which is available as a background document. (...) The IMTS Compilers Manual, developed by the Statistics Division and the
Expert Group on International Merchandise Trade Statistics, contains revised
compilation guidance for international merchandise trade statistics.
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Dryland expansion is expected to continue due to global warming, threatening to aggravate poverty as well as food and water insecurity in affected areas
Defined as the percentage of population that lives in drylands, defined by long term averages of the ratio of precipitation to potential evapotranspiration (known as aridity index)
Calculated by dividing the number of people living in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid lands (i.e., areas with an aridity index between 0.05 and 0.65) by the total population of the country
Calculated by the CDP Secretariat based on climate data obtained from University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit and spatial population data obtained from Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Remoteness and landlockedness
Remoteness and landlockedness inhibit trade and growth by increasing transportation costs and limiting the possibilities for economic diversification
Defined as a trade-weighted average of a country's distance from world markets
Calculated as the weighted average distance from the nearest trading partners with a cumulative share in world trade of 50 per cent, with market shares as weights and adjusted for landlockedness
Calculated by the CDP Secretariat based on data on bilateral distances between the capitals or major cities in the world, obtained from the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) and world market shares based on exports and imports of goods and services reported annually by the United Nations Statistics Division in its National Accounts Main Aggregates database
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of natural disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Note by the CDP Secretariat on measuring remoteness for the identification of LDCs (August 2015)
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Merchandise export concentration
Provides information on the exposure to trade shocks resulting from a concentrated export structure
Measures the product concentration of a country's exports
Expressed as a Herfindahl-Hirschman index, that is the square root of the sum of the squared shares of each commodity (at the three-digit SITC product category) in total exports and normalized so that it can vary between 0 and 1 (in case only one good is exported)
Reported regularly by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its UNCTADstat database
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Share of agriculture, forestry & fishing in GDP
Provides information on countries' exposure to shocks caused by their economic structure. Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing are particularly subject to natural and economic shocks
Defined as the percentage share of the agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing sectors (categories A+B in ISIC Rev. 3.1) in the gross value added of a country
Calculated by dividing the value added of agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing by the total gross value added of all sectors of the economy
Reported annually by the United Nations Statistics Division in its National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Provides information on countries' vulnerability to coastal impacts (including sea level rise and storm surges) associated with climate change
Measures the share of the population in a country that lives in low elevated coastal zones, defined as areas contiguous to the coast below a certain elevation threshold (currently 5 metres)
Calculated by dividing the number of people living in areas contiguous to the coast with an elevation of less than five metres by the total population of the country
Reported by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Instability of exports of goods and services
Highly variable export earnings cause fluctuations in production, employment and the availability of foreign exchange, with negative consequences for sustainable economic growth and development
Defined as the standard deviation of the difference between the value of annual export earnings and its 20-year trend
Calculated by estimating the trend of export earnings by a mixed-trend linear regression and using the standard deviation of the differences between trend and actual values, weighted with the latest three‐year trade dependency (the ratio of exports plus imports to GDP), as measure of instability
Calculated by the CDP secretariat based on data reported annually by the United Nations Statistics Division in its National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Victims of disasters
Provides information on a country’s vulnerability to natural shocks, in particular the human impact of disasters associated with these shocks
Measures the share of population who are victims of disasters, defined as people killed are affected (i.e. requiring immediate food, water, shelter sanitation or medical assistance)
Calculated by dividing the annual number of victims by the total population of the country over a period of 20 years and then taking the simple average
Calculated by the CDP secretariat on the basis of data on the total population from UNPD in its World Population Prospects database , and data on people killed and on people affected from the Emergency Disasters Database (EM-DAT) of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
Methodology
Data Sources
Rationale & Definition
Instability of agricultural production
Highly variable agricultural production is indicative of high vulnerability to natural shocks and often reflects the impacts of natural shocks, including droughts and disturbances in rainfall patterns
Defined as the standard deviation of the difference between agricultural production and its 20-year trend
Calculated by estimating the trend of agricultural production by a mixed-trend linear regression and using the standard deviation of the differences between trend and actual values as a measure of instability
Calculated by the CDP secretariat based on data reported annually by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its FAOSTAT database
Instability of agricultural production
Victims of disasters
Instability of exports of goods and services
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Merchandise export concentration
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
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MEASURING GLOBAL PRODUCTION: GOODS SENT ABROAD
It also reviews all possible data sources that may support their recording.
(...) Each of these items is further discussed below.
A. Adjustments in merchandise trade statistics
22. In many countries customs information form the basis of merchandise trade
statistics. (...) It is quite possible in
some countries that available customs information is not fully utilized in the merchandise
trade statistics. Some of this information may already exist on available customs fields that
are not fully captured or ignored for merchandise trade statistics purposes.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES : NOTE
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.
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Merchandise trade
Chart 4.1: World merchandise exports, 2005-2015
Chart 4.2: Fluctuations in international prices, 2005-2015
Chart 4.3: Top ten exporters of agricultural products, 2015
Chart 4.4: Top ten exporters of fuels and mining products, 2015
Chart 4.5: Top ten exporters of iron and steel, 2015
Chart 4.6: Top ten exporters of chemicals, 2015
Chart 4.7: Top ten exporters of office and telecom equipment, 2015
Chart 4.8: Top ten exporters of automotive products, 2015
Chart 4.9: Top ten exporters of textiles, 2015
Chart 4.10: Top ten exporters of clothing, 2015
Trade in commercial services
Chart 4.11: World transport exports by region, 2015
Chart 4.12: Leading transport exporters, 2015
Freight accounts for the largest part of world transport exports
Estimated structure of world transport exports, 2014
Chart 4.13: World travel exports and international tourist arrivals by region, 2015
Chart 4.14: Leading exporters of travel, 2015
Chart 4.15: World exports of other commercial services by region, 2015
Chart 4.16: Leading exporters of other commercial services, 2015
Chart 4.17: World exports of other commercial services by main category, 2015
Chart 4.18: Exports of computer services in selected economies, 2015
Global value chains
Chart 4.19: World exports in chemical products - Origin of value added, 2011
Chart 4.20: Domestic and foreign value added content in chemicals exports – selected economies, 2011
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Merchandise exports – in terms of US dollar values – from developing economies and least-developed countries (LDCs) were badly hit by significantly lower prices for fuels and mining products in 2015. (...) The decline in transport exports reflected weak merchandise trade while travel receipts fell only slightly. (...) Developing economies’ participation in world trade
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