UK trade in goods statistics: methodologies
These documents cover all aspects of the UK overseas trade in goods statistics and the UK regional trade in goods statistics methodologies.
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These methodology papers cover all aspects of the overseas and regional trade statistics methodology including data sources, classifications and definitions, quality assurance, publications and governance and are a useful companion to the trade data.
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Published 9 January 2014Last updated 14 November 2024 + show all updates
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The title of this page has been updated to UK trade in goods statistics: methodologies.
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HM Revenue & Customs have today amended the text in Section 1 to reflect the change to the labelling of National Statistics.
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Updated 4. Annex D Trade data by preference to reflect the replacement of the UK's Generalised Scheme Preferences (GSP) by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
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Updated methodology and quality report: annexes, section 3.2. Clarification made on how postal parcels are classified for trade data captured via the Intrastat survey.
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In 3.2 Parcel post, last paragraph amended to include Northern Ireland. Changed from: "There is no similar reporting concession for parcel post trade with EU Member States within Intrastat." Changed to: "There is no similar reporting concession for parcel post trade for Northern Ireland trade with EU Member States within Intrastat."
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3.1 Petroleum and petroleum products Annex C updated.
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Reference to BEIS was changed to DESNZ. 'PPRS data collected by DESNZ'
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The methodology and report document - 1. About HMRC’s Trade in Goods Statistics, has been updated.
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The overseas trade in goods methodology and quality report has been updated to reflect changes such as the Windsor Framework. An additional annex (Annex E) has also been added.
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Low value consignments aggregation explanation added. (see section 4.4)
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HM Revenue & Customs have today released an updated version of the Regional trade in goods statistics methodology document.
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The last sentence from Annex A, section 2.1 Electricity (CN Code 2716 0000), has been removed.
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Overseas trade in goods statistics methodology and quality report annexes - HTML attachment has been updated with: Annex D Trade data by preference
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The Regional Trade in Goods methodology paper has been updated.
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Update to methodology annexes to reflect 2022 changes.
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HM Revenue & Customs have today released the newly updated Regional Trade in Goods Statistics methodology and its supporting annexes.
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HM Revenue & Customs have today published an updated methodology document for its Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics product.
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Scheduled review and update to the Overseas trade statistics methodology document.
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The RTS methodology has been updated to include information concerning the new experimental statistic ‘Regional Trade in Goods Statistics dis-aggregated by smaller geographical areas’.
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The overseas trade statistics methodology has been updated to reflect changes in legislation
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Updated methodoology papers for Overseas trade statistics and Regional trade statistics have been released
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The latest Regional Trade Statistics methodology document is now available.
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The updated Overseas Trade Statistics methodology paper has now been published
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An updated Overseas Trade Methodology paper has been published.
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