The classifications of collection of Foreign Trade data are the Combined Nomenclature, which is based on HS, for commodities and the ISO alphabetic code for countries. Concerning dissemination, figures are available broken down by the commodity classifications Combined Nomenclature, HS and SITC rev. 3 and by the country classifications ISO alphabetic code and ISO numeric 3 digit code. The partner country defined for imports is the country of origin, but also figures broken down by country of consignment are provided on request of users. All transactions according to the Special Trade Concept in relaxed mode are included.
Monetary gold is excluded from global figures but published in detail.
Customs Territory according to the Special Trade Concept is used. Trade with all other countries is collected within the Extrastat system, a secondary statistics system, which uses customs declarations data. For exports country of destination is collected, for imports country of origin as well as country of consignment.