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8.17. Interface to statistical data: examples of ASYCUDA. A group of predefined statistical reports which are produced on the server can be obtained as either a server printout or electronic files. However, most statistics from ASYCUDA++ are obtained through SQL, which is used to create reports or database extractions not covered by the standard reporting formats. Writing SQL queries requires specialist technical skills, and access to the database to run them is normally restricted, for both security and performance reasons. ASYCUDA++ has an interface which allows for the extraction of declaration and reference data from the ASYCUDA database in a format compatible with Eurotrace.[13],[14] Work is currently under way (as of July 2011) to add in ASYCUDA a statistics data extraction module which complies, to the extent possible, with the requirements of IMTS 2010 (see table VIII.1) below, specifically for international reporting in detailed trade statistics. A predefined data extraction module will facilitate the trade data flow from customs to compilers.
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[3] The The main instrument of WCO for facilitating the collection, comparison and analysis of statistics is the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, popularly known as the Harmonized System or the HS, which provides for the systematic and uniform classification of goods. With 141 contracting parties (as of 1 December 2011), the HS Convention is one of the most successful instruments developed by WCO, with its international goods nomenclature now being used by more than 200 countries, territories and customs or economic unions as a basis for the collection of trade statistics. Under the HS Convention, contracting parties are obliged to make their import and export trade statistics publicly available in conformity with the six-digit HS codes or beyond that level if they wish, thereby promoting a predictable global trading system. WCO also recommends that its member customs administrations, as well as contracting parties to the HS Convention, report their import and export trade statistics to UNSD as the world’s premier depositary for global statistics. (See WCO recommendation concerning the reporting of trade data to UNSD (19 June 1997). Available from from http://www.wcoomd.org/EN/topics/nomenclature/instrumentand-tools.aspx.
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