Proposal for a List of selected commodities for the cmpilation of production data : prepared by the statistical office of the United Nations

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for a list of selected commodities, which might he used for the compilation of production data in the mining, manufacturing electricity and gas industries. For each commodity listed, there is givens; a code number for identification; a description of the commodity; a reference to the corresponding SITG code number or numbers to provide a link with e report and import statistics; and the physical unit in which the selected commodities should be reported for international use (For national reporting, similar units of smaller dimension might be used.