Allocating Data from HS 6 Digit to HS 2 Digit

OECD 2010

This document addresses some re-allocation issues for discussing possible improvements in the quality and use of time series in the International Trade by Commodity Statistics (ITCS) database and also . Also, it reports on the current availability of data in the database. It presents the main methodological issues faced after two years of data collection and dissemination of the HS2007 classification and . It sets out the “inflation” of some commodity codes as well as important break in series and important breaks in historical HS classifications.

The paper is available at:
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/linkTo/std-ses-wptgs(2009)14 

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