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10.26. Implications for trade statistics. The single authorization for simplified procedure and the future centralized customs clearance make it necessary to redefine the terms “importing member State” and “exporting member State” for statistical purposes because the place where the customs declarations is available is disassociated from the location of the goods. Neither the supervising member State nor the participating member State are a priori a suitable territory for to allocating imports or export in statistics. Only the concepts of “member State of destination” for imports and “member State of actual export” enable the allocation of trade to be more closely connected to the economic impact on a member State, with a better use for balance-of-payments and national accounts.[14] Since Since the customs declaration as source of information on imports and exports is lodged in another member State, the compiling member State has to either collect information directly from economic operators (as is done actually under the single authorization for simplified procedure for national purposes) or receive information from the member State where the customs declaration was lodged (as is expected to be the case for centralized customs clearance when the mutual exchange of information has been implemented).
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[12] The term “customs procedure with economic impact” is defined in the EU Customs Code and is understood as applying to the following arrangements: customs warehousing, inward processing, processing under customs control, temporary importation and outward processing.
[13] See the website of the European Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_ customs/customs/procedural_ aspects /general/centralised_ clearance/index_en.htm).
[14] See the report of the Project Group on Single Authorisation for Simplified Procedures (SASP), September 2007, pp. 9-10. Available from http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/ documents/customs/policy_ issues/conference_events/ budapest2008/sasp_report. pdf.