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Date of release: April 7 2003

International Merchandise Trade Statistics
National Compilation and Reporting Practices

--- 1996 Survey Results ---

Introduction | Research countries | Research questions | List of UN recommendations

PAPUA N.GUIN.
27 answers comply with UN recommendations (blue). (51.9%)
20 answers do not comply with UN recommendations (red). (38.5%)
5 questions have no answer. (9.6%)
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1.  Do you include in trade statistics non-monetary gold?YES
2.  Do you include in trade statistics trade on government account?YES
3.  Do you include in trade statistics military goods?NO
4.  Do you include in trade statistics electricity, gas and water?YES
5.  Do you include in trade statistics postal items?NO
6.  Do you include in trade statistics goods used as carriers of information and software (not to order)?NO
7.  Do you include in trade statistics trade in marine vessels and aircraft that engage in international traffic?N/A
8.  Do you include in trade statistics mobile equipment (i.e. drilling rigs) operating in international waters?NO
9.  Do you include in trade statistics goods delivered to and from offshore installations located in the economic territory of the compiling country?NO
10.  Do you include in trade statistics trade in products mined from the seabed in international waters?NO
11.  Do you include in trade statistics bunkers, stores, ballast and dunnage supplied to foreign vessels or aircraft in the national territory?NO
12.  Do you include in trade statistics bunkers, stores, ballast and dunnage sold from foreign vessels or aircraft in the national territory?NO
13.  Do you include in trade statistics fish and salvage landed from foreign vessels in national ports?YES
14.  Do you include in trade statistics fish and salvage acquired by national vessels on the high seas from foreign vessels?NO
15.  Do you include in trade statistics goods for processing?YES
16.  Do you include in trade statistics goods on financial lease (one year or more)?NO
17.  Do you include in trade statistics illegal trade?NO
18.  Do you include in trade statistics barter trade?NO
19.  Do you include in trade statistics foreign aid?NO
20.  Do you include in trade statistics local border trade?NO
21.  Do you include in trade statistics goods consigned by a government to its armed forces and diplomatic representatives abroad?NO
22.  Do you include in trade statistics monetary gold?NO
23.  Do you include in trade statistics issued securities, banknotes and coins in circulation?NO
24.  Do you include in trade statistics bunkers, stores, ballast and dunnage acquired abroad for national vessels or aircraft?NO
25.  Do you include in trade statistics fish and salvage sold abroad from national vessels?YES
26.  Do you include in trade statistics fish and salvage sold to foreign vessels from national vessels?YES
27.  Do you include in trade statistics goods on operational lease (less than one year)?NO
28.  Do you include in trade statistics improvement and repair trade?NO
29.  Do you include in trade statistics goods on temporary admission?NO
30.  Is transit trade (i.e. goods simply being transported through the territory) excluded from the import and export statistics?YES
31.  Are separate data available in respect of transit trade?NO
32.  Is there a minimum value below which a transaction is not included in the trade statistics?NO
33.  If Yes, what is that value in respect of exports?N/A
34.  If Yes, what is that value in respect of imports?N/A
35.  In the compilation of trade statistics, do you distinguish between civilian and military uses for aircraft?NO
36.  In the compilation of trade statistics, do you distinguish between civilian and military uses for radio navigational aids, radars and radio remote control apparatus?NO
37.  In the compilation of trade statistics, do you distinguish between civilian and military uses for chemicals, leather, rubber, clothing etc.?NO
38.  Are there customs warehouses/customs bonded warehouses in your country?YES
39.  Are there free zones (free ports, entrepôt ports, free warehouses) in your country?NO
40.  Are there warehouses for inward processing?YES
41.  Do you use the general trade system?YES
42.  If Yes, are separate data available for domestic exports (goods of national origin)?YES
43.  If Yes, are separate data available for re-exports of imported goods in free circulation?YES
44.  If Yes, are separate data available for exports from customs bonded warehouses and free zones?YES
45.  If Yes, are separate data available for imports into customs bonded warehouses and free zones?YES
46.  If Yes, are separate data available for exports from inward processing zones?YES
47.  If Yes, are separate data available for imports into inward processing zones?YES
48.  Do you use the special trade system?NO
49.  If you use the special trade system, are separate data available for imports into premises for customs warehousing?N/A
50.  If you use the special trade system, are separate data available for exports from premises for customs warehousing?N/A
51.  If you use the special trade system, are separate data available for exports from premises for inward processing?N/A
52.  If you use the special trade system, are separate data available for imports into premises for inward processing?N/A
53.  Is the statistical value of imported goods a CIF-type value?NO
54.  Is the statistical value of exported goods an FOB-type value?YES
55.  Do you use some other valuation for imports?
Comment: F.o.b.		YES
56.  Do you use some other valuation for exports?NO
57.  Are data separately available for freight and insurance costs?NO
58.  Do you classify imports by country of origin or production?YES
59.  Do you classify imports by country of consignment?NO
60.  Do you classify imports by country of purchase?NO
61.  Do you classify exports by country of consumption or home use?NO
62.  Do you classify exports by country of last known destination?YES
63.  Do you classify exports by country of sale?NO
64.  Do you compile total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale?YES
65.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale?N/A
66.  What is the latest year for which total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale are available?pre 1995
67.  Do you compile the total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase?YES
68.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase?N/A
69.  What is the latest year for which total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase are available?pre 1995
70.  Do you compile the total exports from warehouses for inward processing by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale?YES
71.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total exports from warehouses for inward processing by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale?N/A
72.  What is the latest year for which total exports from warehouses for inward processing by country of consumption/consignment or destination/sale are available?pre 1995
73.  Do you compile the total imports into warehouses for inward processing by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase?YES
74.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total imports into warehouses for inward processing by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase?N/A
75.  What is the latest year for which total imports into warehouses for inward processing by country of origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase are available?pre 1995
76.  Do you compile the total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?YES
77.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?N/A
78.  What is the latest year for which total exports from customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports are available?pre 1995
79.  Do you compile the total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports?YES
80.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports?N/A
81.  What is the latest year for which total imports into customs warehouses or free zones by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports are available?pre 1995
82.  Do you compile the total exports from warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?YES
83.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total exports from warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?N/A
84.  What is the latest year for which total exports from warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country for exports are available?pre 1995
85.  Do you compile the total imports into warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports?YES
86.  In what year did you begin compiling annual data on total imports into warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports?N/A
87.  What is the latest year for which total imports into warehouses for inward processing by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports are available?pre 1995
88.  Are the data referred in questions 76 - 87 available on tape?YES
89.  Are the data referred in questions 76 - 87 available on diskette?YES
90.  Are the data referred in questions 76 - 87 available in a publication?NO
91.  Do you use the Customs Co-operation Council Nomenclature (CCCN)?
Comment: Item level.		YES
92.  Do you use the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS)?NO
93.  Do you use the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC)?
Comment: SITC, Rev.2, 5-digit.		YES
94.  Do you use classifications other than CCCN, HS and SITC?NO
95.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use HS?
Comment: As of 1991 for imports, 1994 for exports.		YES
96.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use SITC, Rev.1?NO
97.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use SITC, Rev.2?NO
98.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use SITC, Rev.3?
Comment: From 1984 to 1990.		YES
99.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use the Customs Co-operation Council Nomenclature (CCCN)?YES
100.  For coding commodities in the basic transactions, do you use a classification other than CCCN, HS and SITC?NO
101.  If you use HS or another classification system for coding the basic transactions, do you convert data to SITC, Rev.1?NO
102.  If you use HS or another classification system for coding the basic transactions, do you convert data to SITC, Rev.2?
Comment: For CCCN codes.		YES
103.  If you use HS or another classification system for coding the basic transactions, do you convert data to SITC, Rev.3?
Comment: For HS codes.		YES
104.  If you use HS or another classification system for coding the basic transactions, do you convert data to another classification?NO
105.  Is confidentiality applied to certain products?NO
106.  Do you use customs declarations as a source?YES
107.  If you use customs declarations as a source, do you use other sources as well?
Comment: In the case of exports, monthly returns of major agricultural commodities and mineral products to confirm their exportation.		YES
108.  Is the date used for recording external trade statistics the date goods enter/leave the economic territory?NO
109.  Is the date used for recording external trade statistics the date of customs clearance?YES
110.  Is the date used for recording external trade statistics the date of receipt of the source document at the statistical agency?NO
111.  Is the date used for recording external trade statistics other than indicated in questions 108-110?N/A
112.  Is conversion of foreign currencies into national currency based on the prevailing market or on the official rate?YES
113.  Is conversion of foreign currencies into national currency based on an official rate established solely for conversion of trade data?NO
114.  Are different (multiple) rates used in currency conversion?NO
115.  Are different (multiple) rates used in currency conversion for exports?N/A
116.  Are different (multiple) rates used in currency conversion for imports?N/A
117.  Is the exchange rate used for currency conversion that which is in effect at the time of exportation or importation?YES
118.  Is the exchange rate used for currency conversion a rate different from that which is in effect at the time of exportation or importation?NO
119.  Monthly data become available in (days):N/A
120.  Quarterly data become available in (days):N/A
121.  Annual data become available in (days):N/A
122.  On what basis can you provide data on total imports?N/A
123.  On what basis can you provide data on total exports?N/A
124.  On what basis can you provide data on total re-exports?N/A
125.  On what basis can you provide data on total imports by any of the following partner country attributions: origin or production/consignment or provenance/purchase?N/A
126.  On what basis can you provide data on total exports by any of the following partner country attributions: consumption/consignment or destination/sale?N/A
127.  On what basis can you provide data on total re-exports by any of the following partner country attributions: consumption/consignment or destination/sale?N/A
128.  On what basis can you provide data on total imports by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for imports?N/A
129.  On what basis can you provide data on total exports by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?N/A
130.  On what basis can you provide data on total re-exports by commodity and by any of the partner country attributions for exports?N/A
131.  On what basis can you provide other data?.........(Please specify.)N/A
132.  Are the data referred to the questions 122 - 131 available on tape?N/A
133.  Are the data referred to the questions 122 - 131 available on diskette?N/A
134.  Are the data referred to the questions 122 - 131 available in a publication?N/A
135.  Do you have available external trade data by air?YES
136.  Do you have available external trade data by sea?YES
137.  Do you have available external trade data by inland waterway?NO
138.  Do you have available external trade data by railway?NO
139.  Do you have available external trade data by road?NO
140.  Do you have available external trade data by pipeline?NO
141.  Do you have available external trade data by other mode of transportation?
Comment: Parcel post.		YES
142.  Do you collect quantity data?YES
143.  Do you use a standard unit of weight for quantity measurement of all commodities where applicable?YES
144.  Do you use a standard unit of weight for quantity measurement of most commodities?NO
145.  Do you use a standard unit of weight for quantity measurement of a few selected commodities?NO
146.  For commodities where a unit of quantity measurement other than weight is commonly used, do you use this unit in addition to weight?NO
147.  For commodities where a unit of quantity measurement other than weight is commonly used, do you use only this unit?YES
148.  Do you use units of weight on a net basis (e.g. excluding packing)?YES
149.  Do you use units of weight on a gross basis?NO
150.  Do you use for ships, number of ships?YES
151.  Do you use for ships, gross registered tons?NO
152.  Do you use for ships, dead-weight tons?NO
153.  Do you use for ships, other quantity units?
Comment: Apart from unit of quantity being numbers, the category is further broken down to vessels under 250 tons dead weight and vessels of 250 tons dead weight and over.		NO
154.  Do you use for aircraft, number of planes?YES
155.  Do you use for aircraft their carrying capacity in terms of number of seats and/or kilograms?N/A
156.  Do you use for aircraft other quantity units?
Comment: The aircraft category is further broken down by unladen weight (i.e. <2,000 kg; 2,000 kg to <15,000 kg; 15,000 kg and over).		YES