1. EXTRASTAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERNIZED COMMUNITY CUSTOMS CODE
1st meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics
Paris, September 2008
Ales Capek
Eurostat
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2. EU Customs union: implications for FTS
Intrastat: statistics on trade between EU Member States
- based on Intrastat declarations
- Issues: quality, burden on enterprises, simplification
Extrastat: statistics on trade with non-EU countries
- based on customs declarations
- Issues: Impact of the Modernized Community Customs Code, « European » perspective of Customs versus « national » perspective of statistics, simplification
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3. Past system
With a few exceptions customs declarations are the source of statistics
EU Member State where customs declaration is lodged is the importing or exporting Member State
The only « problem »: Rotterdam effect
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4. Goods movement: Present System
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5. Changes in the customs rules
Place of lodging customs declarations is disconnected from physical movement of goods
- Single Authorization for Simplified Procedures (SASP)
-Centralised Customs Clearance (CCC)
Customs declarations not required in case of « self-assessment », only ex-post on-site controls
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6. Impact on FTS
Wrong allocation of trade flows to individual EU Member States under SASP and CCC, only EU aggregates are correct
Size of misallocation may reach in % of total trade double digit figures
Non-existence of data in case of self-assessment, as big companies might be affected impact on trade figures might be significant
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7. Goods movement: Centralised Customs Clearance
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8. Centralised Customs Clearance – solutions for FTS
Customs declarations have to contain information on actual importing or exporting EU Member State (MS of destination/actual export)
Data exchange system has to ensure that data available in the supervising EU Member State reach the actual importing or exporting EU Member State
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9. Problems
Information on Member State of destination/actual export is not mandatory data element on the customs declaration
Quality of this information
Data exchange system among 27 Member States is costly, problem of timeliness
Use of e-customs system is problematic as it was designed for different purposes
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10. Self-assessment Customs declarations in traditional sense don’t exist
Alternative system of direct collection of data by Customs or statistical administrations will increase reporting burden on companies
Quality problems similar to Intrastat
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11. New Extrastat
New regulation on Extrastat to be adopted by the European Parliament and the Council and to enter into force in 2010
Reaction to the changes in the EU Customs system
New indicators: trade by business characteristics, trade by invoicing currency
Enhanced quality framework
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