Country Presentation Statistics Madagascar Item 9: Data validation - PDF document

ESA/STAT/AC.142.15 UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS FOR AFRICA STATISTICS DIVISION International Workshop on Country Practices in Compilation of International Merchandise Trade Statistics, 12-16 November 2007, Addis Ababa Country Presentation Statistics Madagascar Item 9: Data validation procedures

International Workshop on Country Practices in Compilation of International Merchandise Trade Statistics, 12-16 November 2007, Addis Ababa DATA VALIDATION PROCEDURES MADAGASCAR GENERALITY • Data sources : Customs. • Existence of Protocol between Customs office and the Statistics office about the statistics of foreign trade. • Two version of ASYCUDA are used by Customs: ASYCUDA 2.7, ASYCUDA ++. • System used for compilation: NEW EUROTRACE. • Two system of validation procedures according to this situation

CUSTOMS PROCEDURE CODES • Two types of CPC are using by Customs: the one for ASYCUDA 2.7 and the other for ASYCUDA ++. • The definition of the type of the flow and the type of trade is based on the CPC. • The system allows to evaluate trade with the special system and the general system. • Correspondence table is used to translate CPC to flow or to type of trade. CUSTOMS PROCEDURE CODES CPC for ASYCUDA 2.7 CPC for ASYCUDA ++ CPC Code_Flux TradeType CPC Code_Flux TradeType C100 I 2 4000.000 I 2 E100 E 2 1000.000 E 2 R500 R G 3052.000 R G C401 I S 4071.000 I S C100 MISE A LA CONSOMMATION DIRECTE 4000.000 Mise à la consommation directe Droit commun E100 EXPORTATION SOUS LE REGIME DU DROIT COMMUN 1000.000 Exportation d‚finitive Droit commun R500 REEXPORTATION EN SUITE D'ADMISSION TEMPORAIRE 3052.000 Ré-exportation en suite d'Admission Temporaire pour Perfectionnement C401 MISE A LA CONSOMMATION EN SUITE D’ENTREPOT 4071.000 Mise à la consommation directe en suite d'entrepôt de transformation I Import E Export R Ré-export 2 Général et Spécial S Spécial G Général

COMMODITY NOMENCLATURE • Nomenclature of commodities are classified under the International Convention on Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) approved by the World Customs Organization . • Others nomenclatures are used for analysis and diffusion: Utilization Group, BullImport, BullExport, SITC. • Table of correspondence is made to translate data from HS to this different nomenclature. COMMODITY NOMENCLATURE

COUNTRY NOMENCLATURE Customs use two types of nomenclature: the first is numeric with three digits and the second alphabetic with two digits witch is recommended by United Nations. COUNTRY NOMENCLATURE

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