For historical reasons trade statistics until fairly recently drawn up for groups of territories or countries which subsequently achieved independence individually. This applied particularly to former French West Africa, ...

The Economic Commission for Africa have repeatedly emphasized the importance to their studies of the development of African external trade statistics and their international comparability. Paragraph 248 of the Commission's ...

The basic document for discussion of commodity classification is "External Trade Statistics" (E/CN.14/STAT/L.17), prepared by the Statistical Office of the United Nations.

The training seminar on International Trade Statistics for English-speaking Government Statisticians was held at EGA headquarters, Addis Ababa Ethiopia from 26 November to 5 December 1990. The training seminar observed ...

This paper focuses on the geographical classification in external trade statistics. The Economic Commission for Africa at its last two sessions laid particular emphasis on studies of the different aspects of African trade, ...

This paper focuses on Quantum Units in external trade statistics of African countries. This study of quantum units is undertaken to enable the third conference of African statisticians to make recommendations on the ...

Although the search for greater comparability of foreign trade statistics has been going on for a very long time it was not until the nineteen-thirties that significant developments, towards the solution of the problem ...

This paper analyses development electronic commerce and the Internet in Africa and its implication to trade statistics.