1. Main Issues of the Foreign Trade Statistics of Turkmenistan
1. Methodological principles of foreign trade statistics of Turkmenistan (sample survey results)
«Mirror statistics» ( trade comparisons between Turkmenistan and Germany)
Adaptation of the 1992 Harmonised System to the HS 1996 and HS 2002 versions
Forecasting in the foreign trade statistics
Future plans 1

2. ESTIMATION OF NON-OBSERVED FOREIGN TRADE
The volume of non-observed goods is determined as the difference between imports/exports of natural persons (V1) (based on the sample survey results) and free imports and exports of natural persons (V2) as follows:
V = V1 – V2 , where V1 = q1 х f and V2 = q2 х f
V – non-observed imports/exports;
q1 –average quantity of imports/exports (based on the sample survey results) per person;
q2 – quantity of free imports/exports per person;
f – number of persons crossing the border of Turkmenistan (based on the reporting form 1-PG «Report on citizens crossing the border of Turkmenistan» 2

3. «Mirror Statistics» Turkmenistan- Germany in USD thousands3

4. Future Plans “Mirror Statistics” methodology
Introduction and development of forecasting models in the foreign trade statistics of Turkmenistan
Monthly estimates of non-observed imports and exports of Turkmenistan
Move to HS 2002 4