Statistics record the transaction of goods between residents and nonresidents.
This change has also been applied retrospectively to the 1996 data. Value data in forints are shown at the official rate of exchange quoted by the National Bank of Hungary. Up to 1993 data published in US dollars were calculated on the basis of total trade expressed in forint value at an average dollar rate of exchange valid for the given year. From 1994 the conversion of data is based on the current cross-rates of exchanges. Due to the retrospective data-corrections data concerning the prior months of the reference year may change from month to month.