Monthly Foreign Trade Statistics - Series A
methods, notes and classification
Monthly Foreign Trade Statistics - Series A
The database consist of time series shown in Parts 1,2 and 3 of the printed publication "Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade".
These data relate to the twenty-nine OECD Member countries and their country groupings.
Information on the individual time series, such as full titles, footnotes, etc. may be found in the printed publication.
Like the paper publication, this CD-ROM database includes five subjects: ╖ calculated aggregates and indicators ; ╖ volume , average value and price indices ; ╖ trade by SITC sections ; ╖ trade by partner countries ; ╖ exchange rates.
This part gives values of trade, for each OECD Member country. The series are shown both before and after adjustment for seasonal variations. These adjustments are made by the Secretariat using the X-12 method developed by the US Bureau of Census. Values for groups of countries are adjusted directly. Therefore they do not equal the sum of the adjusted series for constituent countries.
This database also contains the calculated net trade and coverage ratios.
There is considerable variation between countries in the amount of detail provided and in the classifications used. Average value indices reflect changes in the commodity composition of trade as well as pure price movement. A few countries publish prices indices which eliminate the effect of change in trade composition.
Unless otherwise stated, volume and price indices are base-weighted (Laspeyres); average value indices are current year weighted (Paasche).
Compared with the previous version, this part has been improved in two respects:
This part provides data on each country's trade classified by five major group of commodities, based on the sections of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC):
Machinery and transport equipment (SITC section 7).
Trade by partner countries
The fourth part provides data on trade of Member countries and groups of Member countries with partner countries and groups of partner countries. Economic groupings have been added to geographical groupings.
The exchange rates used to convert national currency to US$.
Methods 
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CLASSIFICATION PLAN:
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STRUCTURE OF THE CODE : XXX / X / X / X / XXX
SUB-CODES :
1 XXX...... Country
2 ...X..... Subject
3 ....X.... Flow (or Blank)
4 .....X... Type of data / Indices categories (or Blank)
5 ......XXX Type of indices / SITC sections / Partner country (or Blank)
SUB-CODE 1 : Country
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Country groups
E15 European Union (15 countries)
A12 Euro area (12 countries)
XEA Euro Area 12 (declaring) excluding intra EU trade (partners)
X15 European Union 15 (declaring) excluding intra EU trade (partners)
G7M G7
NAT NAFTA
OEU OECD Europe
OAO OECD - Asia Oceania
OTO OECD - Total
Countries
AUS Australia
AUT Austria
BEL Belgium
BLX Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union
CAN Canada
CHL Chile
CZE Czech Republic
DNK Denmark
EST Estonia
FIN Finland
FRA France
DEU Germany
GRC Greece
HUN Hungary
ISL Iceland
IRL Ireland
ISR Israel
ITA Italy
JPN Japan
KOR Korea
LUX Luxembourg
MEX Mexico
NLD Netherlands
NZL New Zealand
NOR Norway
POL Poland
PRT Portugal
SVK Slovak Republic
SVN Slovenia
ESP Spain
SWE Sweden
CHE Switzerland
TUR Turkey
GBR United Kingdom
USA United States
SUB-CODE 2 : Subject
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0 Net trade and coverage ratio
1 Trade indicators in value
2 Volume, unit value and price indices: OECD base year
3 Trade in value classified by sections of SITC
4 Trade in value by partner countries
5 Exchange rates
SUB-CODE 3 : Flow
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M Imports
X Exports
SUB-CODE 4 : Type of data / Indices categories
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R Raw data
A Adjusted for seasonal variations
P Price Index
L Volume Index
V Value Index
SUB-CODE 5 : Type of variables / Type of indices / SITC sections / Partner country
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Type of variables
070 Coverage ratio
071 Net trade
Type of indices
001 Products of agriculture, forestry, and fishing
072 Agricultural products
002 Forestry products
003 Live animals
004 Fishing
005 Mineral fuels and lubricants
006 Mineral fuels
007 Energy products
050 Energy
008 Products of food and agricultural industries
009 Food, beverages and tobacco
010 Food and beverages
011 Food
012 Beverages and tobacco
013 Animal and vegetable oils and fats
014 Chemicals and chemical products
015 Chemicals
016 Manufactured goods
017 Manufactured goods, classified chiefly material
018 Manufactured goods, excluding oil products
019 Finished manufactures
053 Petroleum products
052 Textiles and wearing apparels
020 Manufactured goods: n.e.c.
021 Industrial products
022 Inductrial products: textiles, wearing apparel and leather
023 Inductrial products: wood industry
024 Industrial products: paper industry
025 Industrial products: Metal and metal products
026 Metal products
027 Machinery and equipment
028 Machinery and transport equipment
049 Machinery
029 Investment goods
030 Investment goods: machines and devices
031 End products, inedible
032 Fabricated materials, inedible
033 Equipment goods
034 Household's equipment goods
035 Textile products
036 Consumer goods
051 Intermediate goods
037 Ore
038 Crude petroleum
039 Crude materials
040 Raw materials
041 Raw materials: industrial
042 Raw materials: building activity
043 Raw materials: textile materials
044 Raw materials: Metallic materials
045 Raw materials and semi-manufactures
046 Basic materials
047 Motor and other road vehicules
048 Total
SITC sections
001 Total
002 0 + 1: Food live animal, beverages and tobacco
003 0: Food and live animal
004 1: Beverages and tobacco
005 2 + 4: Crude materials, inedible, oils and fat
006 2: Crude materials, inedible, except fuels
007 4: Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes
008 3: Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials
009 5 + 6 + 8 + 9: chemicals, manufactured goods
010 5: Chemicals and related products, n.e.s
011 6: Manufactured goods
012 8: Miscellaneous manufactured articles
013 9: Commodities and transactions n.e.c
014 7: Machinery and transport equipment
Partner country
AFR AFRICA
AME AMERICA
APE APEC
ASE ASEAN
ASI ASIA
AFG Afghanistan
XCB Africa n.e.s.
ALB Albania
DZA Algeria
XCC America n.e.s.
ASM American Samoa
AND Andorra
AGO Angola
AIA Anguilla
ATA Antarctica
ATG Antigua and Barbuda
ARG Argentina
ARM Armenia
ABW Aruba
XCD Asia n.e.s.
NAS in Asia of which
AUS Australia
XBA Australian Oceania
AUT Austria
AZE Azerbaijan
BHS Bahamas
BHR Bahrain
BAL Baltic States
BGD Bangladesh
BRB Barbados
BLR Belarus
BEL Belgium
BLZ Belize
BEN Benin
BMU Bermuda
BTN Bhutan
BOL Bolivia
BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
BWA Botswana
BVT Bouvet Island
BRA Brazil
IOT British Indian Ocean
VGB British Virgin Islands
XAD British Virgin Islands & Montserrat
BRN Brunei Darussalam
BGR Bulgaria
BFA Burkina Faso
BDI Burundi
CEE CEEC
CIS CIS
KHM Cambodia
CMR Cameroon
CAN Canada
CPV Cape Verde
CAR Caribbean and Bahamas Islands
CYM Cayman Islands
CAF Central African Republic
CAM Central America and Caribbean
TCD Chad
830 Channel Islands
CHL Chile
CHN China
TWN Chinese Tapei
CXR Christmas Island (Australia)
CCK Cocos (Keeling) Islands
COL Colombia
COM Comoros
COG Congo
COK Cook Islands
CRI Costa Rica
HRV Croatia
CUB Cuba
CYP Cyprus
CZE Czech Republic
COD Democratic Republic of Congo
DNK Denmark
DJI Djibouti
DMA Dominica
DOM Dominican Republic
E15 European Union (15 countries)
X15 European Union 15 (declaring) excluding intra EU trade (partners)
A12 Euro area (12 countries)
EUR EUROPE
TMP East Timor
ECU Ecuador
EGY Egypt
SLV El Salvador
GNQ Equatorial Guinea
ERI Eritrea (Ethiopia)
EST Estonia
ETH Ethiopia
XCA Europe n.e.s.
NFA FAR EAST
FRO Faeroe Islands
FLK Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FJI Fiji
FIN Finland
BUR Former Burma
CSK Former Czechoslovakia
PCZ Former Panama (Canal Zone)
SUN Former USSR
MKD Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
YUG Former Yugoslavia
FRA France
FRU France unspecified
FRM France incl. Monaco excl. overseas
GUF French Guiana
PYF French Polynesia
ATF French Southern Territories
G7M G7
GAB Gabon
GMB Gambia
XAC Gaza strip
GEO Georgia
DEU Germany
GHA Ghana
GIB Gibraltar
GRC Greece
GRL Greenland
GRD Grenada
GLP Guadeloupe
GUM Guam
GTM Guatemala
GIN Guinea
GNB Guinea-Bissau
GUL Gulf Arabian Countries
GUY Guyana
HTI Haiti
HMD Heard Island and McDonald Islands
HND Honduras
HKG Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
HUN Hungary
ISL Iceland
IND India
IDN Indonesia
IRN Iran
IRQ Iraq
IRL Ireland
IMN Isle of Man
ISR Israel
ITA Italy
ITU Italy unspecified
CIV Ivory Coast
JAM Jamaica
JPN Japan
JOR Jordan
KAZ Kazakstan
KEN Kenya
KIR Kiribati
KOR Korea
PRK Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
XKO Kosovo
KWT Kuwait
KGZ Kyrgyzstan
LAO Lao People's Democratic Republic
LVA Latvia
LBN Lebanon
LSO Lesotho
LBR Liberia
LBY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LIE Liechtenstein
LTU Lithuania
LUX Luxembourg
MER MERCOSUR
NMI MIDDLE EAST
MAC Macao Special Administrative Region of China
MDG Madagascar
MWI Malawi
MYS Malaysia
MDV Maldives
MLI Mali
MLT Malta
MHL Marshall Islands
MTQ Martinique
MRT Mauritania
MUS Mauritius
MYT Mayotte
MEX Mexico
FSM Micronesia, Federated States of
MDA Moldova, Republic of
MCO Monaco
MNG Mongolia
MNE Montenegro, Republic of
MSR Montserrat
MAR Morocco
MOZ Mozambique
MMR Myanmar (ex-Burma)
NAT NAFTA
NOA Non-OECD America
NOS Non-OECD Asia
NOE Non-OECD Europe
NMM Non-OECD Middle East
NMO Non-OECD Oceania and Antarctica
NMC Non-OECD Oceania
NAM Namibia
NRU Nauru
NPL Nepal
NLD Netherlands
ANT Netherlands Antilles
NTZ Neutral zone
NCL New Caledonia
NZL New Zealand
XBB New Zealand Oceania
NIC Nicaragua
NER Niger
NGA Nigeria
NIU Niue
NFK Norfolk Island
MNP Northern Mariana Islands
NOR Norway
NOU Norway unspecified
PSE Occupied Palestinian Territory
OCE OCEANIA
OPA OECD ASIA AND PACIFIC
O29 OECD COUNTRIES
OEU OECD EUROPE
OPE OPEC
XCE Oceania n.e.s.
XOF OECD n/e/s
OMN Oman
XCF Other areas n.e.s.
OTU Other Former Yugoslavia
PCI Pacific Islands
PAK Pakistan
PLW Palau
XAB Palestine
PAN Panama (excluding the Canal Strip)
PNG Papua New Guinea
PRY Paraguay
PER Peru
PHL Philippines
PCN Pitcairn Island
POL Poland
PRT Portugal
PRI Puerto Rico
QAT Qatar
REU Reunion
ROU Romania
RUS Russian Federation
RWA Rwanda
SAA SAARC
SHN Saint Helena
KNA Saint Kitts and Nevis
LCA Saint Lucia
SPM Saint Pierre and Miquelon
VCT Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
WSM Samoa
SMR San Marino
STP Sao Tome and Principe
SAU Saudi Arabia
XXX Confidential information and differences
SEN Senegal
SRB Serbia, Republic of
SCG Serbia & Montenegro
SCU Serbia & Montenegro unspecified
SYC Seychelles
XDA Ships' supplies
SLE Sierra Leone
SGP Singapore
SVK Slovakia
SVN Slovenia
SLB Solomon Islands
SOM Somalia
ZAF South Africa
SAM South America of which
SGS South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
ESP Spain
LKA Sri Lanka
SDN Sudan
SUR Surinam
SJM Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SWZ Swaziland
SWE Sweden
CHE Switzerland
CHU Switzerland unspecified
SYR Syrian Arab Republic
TJK Tajikistan
THA Thailand
TLS Timor-Leste
TGO Togo
TKL Tokelau Islands
TON Tonga
TTO Trinidad and Tobago
TUN Tunisia
TUR Turkey
TKM Turkmenistan
TCA Turks et Caicos Islands
TUV Tuvalu
UGA Uganda
UKR Ukraine
ARE United Arab Emirates
GBR United Kingdom
TZA United Republic of Tanzania
USA United States
USU USA unspecified
UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands
VIR United States Virgin Islands
UNS Unspecified
URY Uruguay
UZB Uzbekistan
VUT Vanuatu
VAT Vatican City State (Holy See)
VEN Venezuela
VNM Vietnam
WLF Wallis and Futuna Islands
XBD West Indies
ESH Western Sahara
XBD West Indies
WLD World
XAB XAB
YEM Yemen
ZMB Zambia
ZWE Zimbabwe
XMB Zone: Africa
XMD Zone: Asia
ARC Zone: Central America
XNA Zone: North America
XSA Zone: South America
XMF Zone: Central and South America
XMA Zone: Europe
XME Zone: Oceania
XAN Zone: Antarctica
Important note:
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Data published are expressed as monthly averages.
Quarterly and annual data are calculated as averages of
monthly figures!