1.1. The present chapter stresses the importance of the legal framework for the compilation and dissemination of international merchandise trade statistics (IMTS), including for ensuring the availability of, and access to, the necessary data sources such as customs records (see chap. II) and non-customs sources (see chaps. III and IV), for establishing effective institutional arrangements (see chap. V) and for ensuring the protection of confidentiality (see also chap. XXVI). Country practices are described in several case studies.
In this part:
- Chapter 1 The legal framework for IMTS
- Chapter 2 Customs declarations and related customs records
- A. Customs declarations as the most prevalent source of trade data
- B. Structure and content of the revised Kyoto Convention
- C. Customs procedures and IMTS
- D. Verification of the declared information
- E. Lodgement of the customs declarations and related data-collection issues
- F. Information required to complete a goods declaration
- Chapter 3 Non-customs data sources
- A. Overview
- B. Main types of non-customs data sources and their uses
- C. Country experiences
- Country Experience: United States of America: postal and courier services (ch. 3)
- Country Experience: Mexico: Administrative and company records (ch. 3)
- Country Experience: Norway: Ships registers (ch. 3)
- Country Experience: Israel: Imports Industry Destination Survey (ch. 3)
- Annex III.A Country practices in the use of different data sources
- Chapter 4 Enterprise and other surveys