Announcing ITDU's Fall Trade Data Conference, in co-operation with the International Trade Center/RRB December 5, followed by a Trade Data Workshop December 6.
In January 2007 major changes will be made to the Harmonized System (HS). The HS commodity coding system forms the structure for compiling worldwide trade statistics, and is used as the basis for applying import duties. The ITDU Conference will highlight these changes and their impact.
Presenters will discuss implications on commodity coding structure, historical trade data continuity, impact on database systems, and their effects on application of import duties. The United Nations will review the implications on world-wide trade measurement and will discuss the newly-released SITC Rev.4 coding system.
The following day we will hold a Trade Data Workshop. This setting will permit us to go into more detail on trade data than a conference permits. It will cover how trade data is collected, the documents used, define the terminology, review how the U.S. Census Bureau – FTD processes trade data and corrects errors.
It will also review U.S. trade data products and demonstrate Internet access. We will discuss areas prone to misinterpretation in using trade data. Besides the Census Bureau, we also will have presentations of on-line access to trade data by other government agencies such as the ITC, ITA, STAT-USA, as well as commercial companies providing access on a subscription basis.
In addition, the United Nations will discuss their world-wide data system and Internet access. At the end of the day participants will have an in-depth understanding of trade data, how it's collected, processed, what's available, and how to access it.
International Trade Data Users
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