Areas not elsewhere specified
Areas not elsewhere specified (Areas, NES)
The partner "Areas NES (not elsewhere specified)" is used (a) for low value trade and (b) if
the partner designation was unknown to the country or if an error was made in the partner
assignment. The reporting country does not send us the details of the trading partner in
these specific cases. Sometimes reporters do this to protect company information.
So, one could say that "Area nes" is a group of partner countries, but the components of the
group vary by reporter, by year and by commodity.
Prior to the implementation of the current processing system, there were 16 groupings
under areas not elsewhere specified (Areas, NES). As of 1 January 2006, the are only 7
groupings under areas not elsewhere specified (Areas, NES) which was a result of groupings
either discontinued or merged together to form new groupings. Areas, not elsewhere
specified (Areas, NES) are now associated with continents, whereas previously they were
associated with regions.
Areas, NES (for datasets processed before January 2006):
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Code
Description
472
Central African Monetary and
Economic Union region, not
elsewhere specified
No
899
Areas, not elsewhere
specified
Yes
471
Central American Common
Market, not elsewhere
specified
No
129
Caribbean, not elsewhere
specified
No
221
Eastern Europe, not
elsewhere specified
No
697
European Free Trade
Association, not elsewhere
(Yes/No)
No
Areas not elsewhere specified
specified
492
Europe EU, not elsewhere
specified
473
Latin American Integration
Association, not elsewhere
specified
Yes
637
North America, the
Caribbean and Central
America not elsewhere
specified
Yes
290
Northern Africa, not
elsewhere specified
No
527
Oceania, not elsewhere
specified
Yes
577
Other Africa, not
elsewhere specified
Yes
490
Other Asia, not elsewhere
specified
Yes
568
Other Europe, not
elsewhere specified
Yes
636
Rest of America, not
elsewhere specified
No
879
Western Asia, not elsewhere
specified
No
No
Areas, NES (for datasets processed after January 2006):
Code
Description
899
Areas, not elsewhere specified
473
South America, not elsewhere specified
North and Central America, not elsewhere
637
specified
527
Oceania, not elsewhere specified
Areas not elsewhere specified
577
Africa, not elsewhere specified
490
Asia, not elsewhere specified
568
Europe, not elsewhere specified
Related Question:
Q: I could not find anything in the knowledge base about reporters such as Other Europe,
nes and Other Africa, nes.
A: If you combine both lists there shouldn't be any duplication.The new 7 Areas NES defined
in KB article: Areas not elsewhere specified (Areas, NES) were planned for the datasets
starting in the year 2000. However, not all the datasets from 2000 onwards have been
reprocessed. As our new processing system (Copra) was only implemented in 2006 all the
datasets beginning with year 2005 should be referring to the 7 new Areas Nes.
Since you need 2005 datasets, it is useful to map the old Areas NES groups into the new
NES. Please note these are not new codes but codes which are redefined.
Below is the mapping between old NES to new NES:
899 - Areas, not elsewhere specified
473 - South America, not elsewhere specified - includes 129 (Caribbean, nes) (old)
637 - North and Central America, nes - includes 636+471(Rest of America, nes + CACM)
527 - Oceania, nes
577 - Africa nes - includes 472+290 (Central African Monetary and Economic Union region,
nes +
North Africa, nes)
490- Asia, nes - includes 879 (Western Asia, nes)
568- Europe, nes - includes 492 + 697 + 221 (Europe EU, nes + European Free Trade
Association,nes + Eastern Europe, nes)
Q. What is Special categories as a partner country?
The partner "Areas NES(not elsewhere specified)" is used (a) for low value trade and
(b) if the partner designation was unknown to the country or if an error was made in the
partner assignment. The reporting country did not send us the details of the trading partner
Areas not elsewhere specified
in those specific cases. Sometimes reporters do this to protect company information.
So, you could say that "Areas nes" is a group of partner countries, but the components of
the group will vary per reporter, per year and per comodity.
The partner "Special Categories" (code 839) is used by a reporting country if it does not
want the partner breakdown to be disclosed. The use of this partner code depends on the
combination of reporting country, trade flow and specific commodity.
The distinction between an "unknown partner country" and an "undisclosed partner country"
could be mixed up at times.
Both "Free Zone" (code 838) and "Bunkers" (code 837) are trading partner entities.
"Free Zones" belong to the geographical and economic territory of a country but not to its
customs territory. For the purpose of trade statistics the transactions between the customs
territory and the free zones are recorded. Free zones can be commercial free zones (duty
free shops) or industrial free zones.
"Bunkers" are ship stores and aircraft supplies, which consists mostly of fuels and food.
Q: United States Minor Outlying Islands (581)
A: United States Minor Outlying Islands (581) are made up of individual partner entities of
US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (849), Midway Island (488) and Wake Island (872).
Therefore, 581 = 849 + 488 + 872. US Minor Outlying Islands does not report as a
statistical territory.
Trade Knowledgebase
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradekb/Knowledgebase/50042/Areas-not-elsewhere-specified