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Presentation on External trade by tariff regime

Presentation on External trade by tariff regime. Evangelos Pongas Eurostat - Unit G5 Workshop of "Best practices exchanges" Luxembourg, 25th & 26th January 2010. Outline of the presentation. Background information Existing databases and contents Compilation issues

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Presentation on External trade by tariff regime

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  1. Presentation on External trade by tariff regime Evangelos Pongas Eurostat - Unit G5 Workshop of "Best practices exchanges"Luxembourg, 25th & 26th January 2010

  2. Outline of the presentation • Background information • Existing databases and contents • Compilation issues • Data access and presentation/analytical issues Presentation of Unit G5

  3. Who does what • Commission is responsible of the EU commercial policy (external trade issues) • Several directorates are involved (TRADE, TAXUD, AGRI etc.) • Main activities cover: commercial negotiations at international level, elaboration of legal acts for extra imports and exports, monitoring of trade, antidumping policy etc. • National custom authorities are responsible for the implementation and the collection of duties Presentation of Unit G5

  4. Import tariff types • Non dutiable trade (tariff is zero). Often called MFN zero • Dutiable trade (tariff is not zero). Often called MFN non zero • Variations of (dutiable trade) tariffs (reduced or zero) depending on the origin and the products. Two main categories exist: • Generalized system of preferences (GSP). • Other preferences • MFN: Most Favoured Nations Presentation of Unit G5

  5. Existing databases • EUROSTAT - COMEXT: Contains extra imports by type of tariff requested during importation (MFN or preferential) • TAXUD – TARIC database: Among other contains detailed information about tariffs • The Comext dataset “trade by tariff regime” combines the data of both above data sources: • TARIC showing the eligibility of importing a product under a specific regime (preferential mainly) • Comext showing how and if the facility foreseen by TARIC was used in practice (Import regime). Presentation of Unit G5

  6. Some examples - 0 • An import of a specific product from a specific country was GSP eligible (according TARIC reduced or zero duty ) but in practice the import was realized (according COMEXT) under MFN regime. This often happens because some origin certificates are missing or not properly issued. • The unknown item in the eligibility dimension refers to product/partner countries for which information in TARIC could not be found • The unknown item in the use dimension refers to product/partner country for which a join with TARIC could not be done (confidential codes for example) or to trade that preferential information was wrong or missing Presentation of Unit G5

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