18.2.        Request for customs procedure code as a new data field. Following the adoption of the revised recommendations contained in IMTS 2010, the United Nations Statistics Division and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revised their data request to countries[1] to include the following four new data items: (a) second partner country or area, (b) second value for imports (FOB), (c) mode of transport and (d) customs procedure code (or applicable transaction code) (see table XVIII.1 for details).[2] The TF-IMTS as well as the EG-IMTS have been informed about these new data items.

Table XVIII.1

New data fields following the adoption of IMTS 2010a

Field name

Recommended field content

Second partner country or area

In national nomenclature; country of consignment for imports and country   of consignment (destination) for exports

Second value for imports

Monetary value (in national currency orUnited Statesdollars); FOB

Mode of transport

The means of transport used when goods enter or leave the economic   territory (in the encouraged nomenclature provided in IMTS 2010, para. 7.2 or   national nomenclature)

Customs procedure code (or applicable transaction code)

Code of the customs procedure applied to individual transactions by   customs; any applied procedure or transaction code if customs procedure codes   are not available or if additional codes are used

a See table VIII.1 for further information.

 

[1] UNSD and OECD cooperate in the collection of annual merchandise trade data. OECD requests the data from its member countries and immediately forwards the received data to UNSD. Starting in 2013, UNSD will take over responsibility for data collection for all countries, including OECD member countries.

[2] The revised data request is available from UNSD website at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/IMTS/datacollection.htm.