Introduction: trade analyttransmitted : IC tools for policy-making and business decisions : application and interpretation / Biswajit Nag and Debashis Chakraborty -- Structure and use of trade data and indices -- India's trade pattern and opportunities with Central Asian countries : an...

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...

In some countries a Paasche price index based on unit values is compiled as a proxy for a true Paasche (or Laspeyres) price index on the basis of prices. This is for example the case in German foreign trade statistics. Unit values are average prices referring to a 'commodity number' (CN), that...

The trade collapse that followed the recent financial crisis has led to a renewed interest on the measurement issues affecting international merchandise trade statistics in the new globalized economy. The international fragmentation of industrial production blurs the concept of country of origin...

Der internationale Warenhandel wird doppelt erfasst: einerseits in der Exportstatistik des Lieferlandes, andererseits in der Importstatistik des Empfangslandes. Auf Basis dieser beiden Quellen werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit für die Jahre 1992 und 2000 Handelsmatrizen berechnet, in denen die...