WTO | Statistics - International trade statistics

ACP	African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
ANDEAN	Andean Common Market
APEC	Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN	Association of South-East Asian Nations
AFTA	ASEAN Free Trade Area
BOP	Balance of Payments
BPM5	Balance of Payments Manual, fifth edition
CACM	Central American Common Market
CARICOM	Caribbean Common Market
CEFTA	Central European Free Trade Agreement
CEMAC	Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States
CIS	Commonwealth of Independent States
COMESA	Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
ECCAS	Economic Community of Central African States
ECOWAS	Economic Community of West African States
EFTA	European Free Trade Association
EU	European Union
EUROSTAT	Statistical Office of the European Communities
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FDI	Foreign direct investment
GCC	Gulf Co-operation Council
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GNP	Gross National Product
HS	Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
IEA	International Energy Agency
IMF	International Monetary Fund
ISIC	International Standard Industrial Classification
LDCs	Least-developed countries
MERCOSUR	Southern Common Market
NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement
OECD	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
SAARC	South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
SADC	South African Development Community
SAPTA	South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement
SITC	Standard International Trade Classification
WAEMU	West African Economic and Monetary Union
UNECE	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNECLAC	United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
UNCTAD	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNIDO	United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNSD	United Nations Statistics Division

The following symbols are used in this publication:

...	not available
0	figure is zero or became zero due to rounding
-	not applicable
$	United States dollars
Q1,Q2	1st quarter, 2nd quarter
I	break in comparability of data series. Data after the symbol do not form a consistent series with those from earlier years.

Billion means one thousand million.

Minor discrepancies between constituent figures and totals are due to rounding.

Unless otherwise indicated, (i) all value figures are expressed in U.S. dollars; (ii) trade figures include the intra-trade of free trade areas, customs unions, regional and other country groupings; (iii) merchandise trade figures are on a customs basis and (iv) merchandise exports are f.o.b. and merchandise imports are c.i.f. Data for the latest year are provisional.

Closing date 31 August 2004