External Trade of the Czech Republic by CPA

Methodology

Contents

This publication contains external trade data broken down by CPA 2.
In order to achieve a better explanatory power and comparability of data between external trade statistics, enterprise statistics and national accounts, data have been converted according to the structure of the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) down to the two-digit level.
The source of information on external trade are data collected by customs authorities. Starting from processing of the January 2004 data, data collection and the first check are carried out by the Directorate General of Customs, whereas the Czech Statistical Office is in charge of further data processing, checks and publishing.
External trade statistics is made up of the sum of intra - Community trade (trade with the EU Member States) and trade with third countries. Data on goods traded between Member States of the Communities are supplied by reporting units to the customs office on the Intrastat questionnaire, with information on dispatches of goods or arrivals of goods. Data on imported and exported goods in trade with third countries are given in a Single Administrative Document (SAD).
Imports and exports data should be regarded as preliminary ones. Data published by individual quarter will be subse­quently updated.

The following two notes apply to all tables of this publication – „External Trade by CPA, January - March 2007“:
2006 data for January to December are updated, referring to 16 May 2007 closing date.
2007 data for January to March are updated, referring to 16 May 2007 closing date.

Casual differences on the last digit position arise for rounding off the absolute number.