CHAPTER 3COMPILATION OF STATISTICS ON TRADE BY BUSINESS CHARACTERISTICS AND STATISTICS ON TRADE BROKEN DOWN BY INVOICING CURRENCY

Article 15Compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics

1.

National statistical authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics.

2.

The statistical units shall be enterprises as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/935.

3.

Statistical units are constructed by linking the trader identification number according to Article 13 with the legal unit of the Business Register according to the variable 1.7a referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council6.

F14.

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5.

The following characteristics shall be compiled:

(a)

trade flow;

(b)

statistical value;

(c)

partner country;

(d)

goods code, according to the section or two-digit level as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council8;

(e)

number of enterprises;

(f)

activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the statistical classification of economic activity (NACE) as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council9;

(g)

size class, measured in terms of number of employees according to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics as laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/200910.

6.

The following datasets shall be compiled:

(a)

matching rates between trade and business registers;

(b)

trade by activity and enterprise size class;

(c)

share of largest enterprises in terms of value of trade by activity;

(d)

trade by partner country and activity;

(e)

trade by number of partner countries and activity;

(f)

trade by goods and activity.

F27.

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F28.

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F29.

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Article 16Compilation of statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency

1.

National statistical authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency.

2.

The statistics shall contain the following characteristics:

(a)

trade flow;

(b)

statistical value;

(c)

invoicing currency according to the coding in Article 14;

(d)

total and a product breakdown according to sections and divisions of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) in force, indicating the following codes:

  • 1

    raw materials without oil according to SITC section 0-4 excluding division 33,

  • 2

    oil according to SITC division 33,

  • 3

    manufactured products according to SITC sections 5-8.

F33.

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F34.

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5.

The data source shall be the information recorded from customs declarations F4.... However, if the invoicing currency for exports is not available on the customs declaration, F5the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs shall carry out a survey for compiling exports broken down by invoicing currency which provides statistics with accurate results.