Gerry Brady CSO
Meeting of the Enterprise Statistics Liaison Group
November 2011
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Customs declarations are used for statistical purposes as the basic data source for trade with Non-EU Member States . They provide detailed information on exports and imports of goods with a product and geographical breakdown.
The advent of the Single Market on 1 January 1993, with its removal of customs formalities between Member States required the establishment of a new data collections system called Intrastat .
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Extrastat
Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on Community statistics relating to external trade with non-member countries
Intrastat
Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Amended by : Regulation (EC) No 222/2009
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Intrastat system was created seeking two major goals:
 to satisfy user needs by providing the same statistical information on trade as before and
 at the same time to reduce administrative burden on traders while providing statistical data.
Intrastat is closely linked with the VAT system relating to intra-
Community trade in order to ensure completeness and quality of the statistical data.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Member States have to ensure that at least 97% of dispatches and 95% of arrivals of trade value to/from the Member States is covered
Traders whose imports from EU countries exceeded €191,000 in 2010 must make a detailed import return each month in
2011.
Traders whose exports from EU countries exceeded €635,000 in 2010 must make a detailed export return each month in
2011.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
The VIMA Office of the Revenue Commisioners collects both the intra-EU (survey) and extra-EU trade (daily tranfers from
Customs) data.
Before 2011, the CSO surveyed companies operating in the
Shannon Free Zone. The CSO survey did not collect full product or partner country detail. Since 2011, VIMA has collected these transactions at full product and partner country detail.
Parcel post
Parcel post subject to Customs processing and a figure for this is received from VIMA.
The CSO estimates the value of Non-EU goods that are imported or exported by parcel post and not recorded by
Customs.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
National requirement
Traders must furnish the data to VIMA not later than the 10 th working day after the reference month.
EU Requirements
Member States must provide Eurostat with intra- and extra-EU aggregated statistics within 40 days after the reference month.
For detailed statistics the deadlines are 42 days for extra-EU statistics and 70 days for intra-EU statistics.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
The required date for traders to make a return will be extended from the 10 th working day to not later than 23 days after the reference month.
This will align the return date with VIES and VAT facilitating traders to make better quality returns.
Traders will be obliged to make their returns electronically using ROS (paper returns are expensive to process and were subject to a high level of error in terms of human transposition).
CN unit value checks will be incorporated into the ROS upload allowing traders to verify unit values based on values set by the CSO.
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November 2011

Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
All VAT traders are required to record the value of goods imported from and exported to other EU Member States.
These returns are used for:
 estimating the value for traders below the Intrastat thresholds
 estimating for non-response
 compiling a register of Traders
 Identifying traders required to make detailed returns
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
EU and national strategy aims to reduce the administrative burden on businesses caused by the requirements of public administration.
The statistical burden accounts for a relatively small part of the total administrative burden in the Member States.
The Intrastat reporting burden forms a significant proportion of all statistical reporting obligations on businesses.
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EnterpriseStatistics
Liaison Group
 Services are included in Balance of Payments
 Customised software refers to software that is developed to order for a particular client and made to special requirements
 Software supplied which does not involve a physical exchange of goods
 Software downloaded from the Internet.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
 Month
 VAT number
 CN product code (8 digits)
 SITC code (5 digits, derived from CN)
 Invoice value
 Statistical value
 Net mass (kg)
 Supplementary unit (number/quantity)
 EU / Non-EU
 Partner country
 Country of consignment
 Delivery terms (CIF, FOB etc.)
 Nature of transaction (sale, purchase, returns, repairs etc.)
 Mode of transport (Extrastat, sea, air, etc.)
 Port of entry/exit (Extrastat)
 Invoice currency (Extrastat)
 Type (imports/exports)
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
 VAT number
 ABT company ID
 ABT group code
 Revenue activity code
 Trader name
 Address
 VAT return requirements
 Date company added/cancelled
 Return under Group VAT number
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Invoiced amount is the value of the goods indicated on the invoice.
Transport and insurance costs which are part of the contract price should be included.
VAT and Excise duties (on alcohol, tobacco and hydrocarbon oils) should be excluded.
Currency conversion shall be made if the value is stated in a foreign currency.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Statistical value, delivery terms and mode of transport are required only from traders with imports of over €5m or exports of over €34m.
The statistical value for exports shall be a FOB-type value
(free on board) which means the value of the goods as they leave the territory of the Member State reporting the dispatch.
The statistical value for imports shall be a CIF-type value
(cost, insurance, freight). This means the value of the goods when they enter the territory of the Member State reporting the arrival.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Year Creations Deletions Total Evolution
2002 780 654 1434 126
2003
2004
19
273
15
503
34
776
4
-230
2005
2006
2007
97
486
917
175
740
1039
272
1226
1956
-78
-254
-122
75
127
180
132
907
96
257
306
281
171
384
486
413
818 1,725
-21
-130
-126
-149
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CN Codes
10400
10404
10174
10096
9842
9720
9699
9569
9443
9294
9383
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Prior to 2011 VIMA were responsible for a large amount of micro data editing. The CSO provided VIMA with guideline
CN unit values to assist in this work.
In January 2011 the CSO took over primary responsibility for all editing of the data not validated by the Trader (VIMA still undertake some initial editing e.g. valid CN code etc.).
VIMA now focus their queries on the quality of the large traders data and on unusual transactions. They only amend data if the trader provides corrections.
Much of the CSO editing is focused on amending the net mass and supplementary values in cases where the unit values are extremely high or low.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Calculation methodology
The monthly price (unit value) index measures monthly price trends relative to the annual levels in the preceding year using value weights relating to that year’s trade (Laspeyres index).
The annual index is compiled using value weights for both the current and previous year (Fisher index) to allow for changes in the structure of external trade.
Difficulties
Wide variations in unit prices both within a CN and within related CNs.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
A Large Cases Unit was established in 2010 to ensure that the various CSO Divisions used consistent data for the very large enterprises.
There are quarterly meetings held and some adjustments are made to the returns from VIMA for a small number of very large enterprises to align the data with Balance of Payments data for trade in goods.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Issues 7 weeks after reference month
 Value of trade
 Volume and Price indices
 Terms of trade
 Seasonally adjusted series
 Value by SITC division
 Value by partner country
 Value by partner country and SITC Section
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
 Table 1 Summary of trade, € and Indices
 Table 2 Seasonally adjusted series, € and Indices
 Table 3 Imports by Main use, € and %
 Table 4 Imports by Main use and Area of origin, €
 Table 5 Exports by Industrial origin, € and %
 Table 6 Exports by Industrial origin & Destination, €
 Table 7 Trade by Area, €
 Table 8 Trade by Area: % distribution
 Table 9 Trade by country, €
 Table 10 Trade by SITC Section and Division, €
 Table 11 Trade by Division and Country, €
 Table 12 Trade by Country and Division, €
 Table 13 Imports by 5-digit SITC & Country,
€ & Tonnes
 Table 14 Exports by 5-digit SITC & Country, € & Tonnes
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
The CSO data bank contains a large amount of trade data, http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Database/eirestat/Trade/Trade_statbank.asp?SP=Trade&Planguage=0
The Trade Helpdesk provides a special queries facility.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Value of Trade in Goods and Services 2010
Type
€billion
Exports Imports
Goods €89.2b
Services €73.8b
€45.8b
€80.9b
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Value of Total Goods Trade 2010
VAT number value size class
Class
< €100,000
<
<
€1m
€100m
Vat numbers
17,384
Exports
€196m
€872m
Vat numbers
47,332
Imports
€583m
7,187 €2,285m 2,783
1,378 €14,399m 2,886 €21,979m
€100m +
Total
116 €72,765m
21,661 €88,232m
64
57,469
€19,590m
€44,437m
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Value of Intra-EU Goods Trade 2010 (excludes estimates)
VAT number value size class
€100m +
Total
Exports
Class
< €100,000
Vat numbers
101
<
<
€1m
€100m
€m
€4m
€290m 563
1,169 €12,534m
72 €36,999m
1,905 €49,827m
Imports
Vat numbers
875
€m
€41m
3,758 €1,531m
2,405
37
7,075
€17,331m
€9,509m
€28,412m
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Class
USA
Great Britain
Germany
France
Switzerland
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
China
Vat numbers
Exports
€million
Value per trader
1,796 20,761 €11.6m
1,611
835
798
800
590
756
606
1,004
11,977
5,948
4,391
3,557
3,306
3,015
2,626
2,494
€7.4m
€7.1m
€5.5m
€4.4m
€5.6m
€4.0m
€4.3m
€2.5m
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Year Vat numbers
Exports Vat numbers
Exports
2004
2005
Poland
504 €279m
345 €280m
China
560 €639m
593 €910m
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
370 €400m
396 €567m
393 €723m
411 €601m
415 €558m
599 €875m
574 €1,320m
494 €1,609m
624 €1,633m
748 €1,672m
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Flow
Imports
Currency
Euro
Dollar
Missing
Exports Euro
Dollar
Missing
2010 2011 (to Sep)
16% 9%
81%
3%
88%
3%
12%
88%
0%
6%
94%
1%
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
Business data can be linked to External Trade data via the
VAT number .
The CSO Business Register contains a companies enterprise number and VAT number.
Larger companies would be surveyed in the Census of
Industrial production. This survey collects data on employment, turnover, etc.
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Enterprise Statistics
Liaison Group
 More web based dissemination
 Allow users to make their own tables
 Incorporate a business view of the data
 Thematic reports (markets, products etc.)
 Invoice currency
Business view
 Nationality of traders
 Number of traders by market and commodity
 Product diversification among traders
 Linkage to PRODCOM and Census of Industrial Production
 Linkage with Service Exports and Imports
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