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Final Workshop of the Food Balance Sheet components 10 – 12 April 2013

International trade statistics-main component of SUA/FBS compilation

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During the compilation of SUA/FBS the equality between supply and utilization is based on the followings elements reuqested for any single food and agriculture commodity :

Compilation of SUA/FBS and estimation of the Food availability

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External Trade Statistics

Trade statistics should be considered as the first product of the globalization system:

Unique goods and services market;

Unique statistical language (concepts, definitions) according with the IMTS methodology

Harmonized classifications;

Unique external trade database-(at the moment there are various modules located in the various international organizations)

World Customs Organization (WCO)

WTO Trade Common Data Set

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International Merchandise Trade Statistics,Compilers Manual

1. Harmonized Methodology of the External Trade Statistics:

United Nations: International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts and Definitions Studies in Methods, Series M, No. 52, Rev. 2 United Nations publications Sales No. E.98.XVII.16 ISBN 92-1-161410-4

Trade Statistical Methodology

IMTS-UNSD methodology

International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Supplement to the Compiler's Manual (2007

International Merchandise Trade Statistics 2010

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2. Standard international classifications

Trade Statistics

• WCO-Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding system

HS 1992 HS1996 HS2002 HS2007 HS2012 editions

• UNSD: Standard International Trade Classification ( SITC):

SITC SITC Rev.2 SITC Rev.3 SITC Rev4.

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import/export quantity and value of food and agriculture products by year and country. Sources: • Annual trade data-electronic files:

• data exchange between FAO and other international organizations (UNSD, EUROSTAT); joint letter FAO-UNSD

• country request including the specifications on the standard layout of the trade data file;

• joint letter: FAO-AOAD and FAO-SPC Fiji • Other sources:

• Traditional publications (trade yearbooks) • Virtual publications (web sites):Example: Custom Department of

Lebanon total merchandise trade-including agriculture and non-agriculture

products. Source: national publications, CDS-WTO, UNSD-Annual Total trade table(ATT), trade data files.

food aid - Source:WFP database annual exchange rate:Source: IMF-annual file, national publications

International Trade Statistics –data sources

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Commodity Classifications:

SITC Rev 4

HS 1992, 1996, 2002, 2007 Edition

Statistical Territories

Link FAOSTAT item codes

FAOSTAT country codes

FAO Data Conversion

FAO classification versus standard classification

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FAO trade activities

The annual working plan contains the following main activities: •Data collection and data exchange of the electronic files: -sent the trade data requests -collect/exchange the files • Collection of other trade data-(food aid, total trade) • Trade data processing:

-of the electronic files -non-electronic data;

• Estimation of the missing data using mirror data • Global validation of the trade data at the world level; • Run procedures for item and country aggregates; • Verification of the aggregates and disseminate annual trade data; •Calculations, verification and dissemination of TINs

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FAO -Trade data activity

Cross check and validation

Corrections Other statistical data sources

Update database

Statistical Yearbooks

FAO –ftp

Trade folder

Standardization SHARK

Conversion

Validation JELLY FISH

Electronic file process

Non-electronic data process TF-Sourc

TF-Valid

TP estimations

FAOSTAT Working system

Original trade data

Trading partners

IN OUT Stag

STd

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FAO trade statistics databases:

1. FAO tariff line data by HS 6,8,10,12 digits code, by country, year, flow and partner-contains the FAO standard form of the data reported by countries- the name of database is TF_source which contains over 1700 country/years files and could be accessed by all FAO internal users at: http://faostat.local.fao.org/site/588/default.aspx. This data base is ongoing database and it is updated as soon as a new trade data file is received and standardized.

2. Trade flow database by FCL classification, flow, country, year and

by partner which is also available for all FAO internal people at: http://faostat.local.fao.org/site/639/default.aspx; This database is also ongoing. Based on this database, on the FAOSTAT external website 2 applications are available: Detailed trade matrix: http://faostat.fao.org/site/537/default.aspx and Detailed trade flow: http://faostat.fao.org/DesktopModules/Faostat/WATFDetailed2/watf.aspx?PageID=536 ; both external applications used a reference trade flow database (for instance, trade flow database available at 30/07/2011).

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FAO trade statistics databases:

3. SUA trade data by FCL, aggregated flow, country and year, which is the time series of SUA/FBS and is disseminated on the internal: http://faostat.local.fao.org/site/535/default.aspx#ancor and external: http://faostat.fao.org/site/535/default.aspx#ancor FAOSTAT website.

This database contains the data automatically uploaded from the trade flow database (see above item 2.) plus the trade data reported in the non-electronic format, plus food aid data reported by WFP, plus total merchandise trade data uploaded from WTO-CDS or from country sources plus imputed/estimated data for the non-reporting countries. The current imputation method uses the trade flow database (see above item 2.) to input the missing data

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FAO-Trade data availability in FAO working system

142 152 154 155 152 155

150 149 145 144 141 136

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Total number of the reporting countries by reference year

status at 08/04/2013

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FAO-Trade data availability in FAO working system

In general, the official reported trade statistics cover more the 95% of total merchandise trade value. The share of the official reporting trade data is also high by trade aggregates, including the group of food and agriculture products. In this regard, in 2010, according to the trade data aggregates, disseminated by FAOSTAT website: http://faostat.fao.org/site/342/default.aspx, about 92% of total trade value of food and agriculture products have been officially reported by the member countries.

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Status of the trade data collection and processing

Armenia 2000 HS02 Azerbaijan 2000 other sources Georgia 2000 HS96 Moldova, Republic of 2000 HS96

Armenia 2001 HS02 Azerbaijan 2001 HS96 Georgia 2001 HS96 Moldova, Republic of 2001 HS96

Armenia 2002 HS96 Azerbaijan 2002 HS96 Georgia 2002 HS96 Moldova, Republic of 2002 HS96

Armenia 2003 HS02 Azerbaijan 2003 HS96 Georgia 2003 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2003 HS96

Armenia 2004 HS02 Azerbaijan 2004 HS02 Georgia 2004 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2004 HS02

Armenia 2005 HS02 Azerbaijan 2005 HS02 Georgia 2005 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2005 HS02

Armenia 2006 HS02 Azerbaijan 2006 HS02 Georgia 2006 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2006 HS02

Armenia 2007 HS02 Azerbaijan 2007 HS02 Georgia 2007 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2007 HS02

Armenia 2008 HS07 Azerbaijan 2008 HS07 Georgia 2008 HS07 Moldova, Republic of 2008 HS07

Armenia 2009 HS07 Azerbaijan 2009 HS07 Georgia 2009 HS02 Moldova, Republic of 2009 HS07

Armenia 2010 HS07 Azerbaijan 2010 HS07 Georgia 2010 HS07 Moldova, Republic of 2010 HS07

Armenia 2011 HS07 Azerbaijan 2011 HS07 Georgia 2011 not reported Moldova, Republic of 2011 HS07

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova

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Trade data quality Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova

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Trade data quality Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova

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Trade data quality Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova

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