Monthly bulletin of foreign trade data August 2017

CAPMAS is pleased to release “monthly bulletin of foreign trade data”, where it issued for the first time in January 2008 according to the statistical manual of organized customs tariffs items, which consist of (10) digits and according to the issued organized customs tariffs items by a presidential decree no. (39) for year 2007 the 5th of February 2007 .

This release includes the accumulated data from January to August 2017, and this organized customs tariffs aims to achieve the following purposes: :
1- وضع توصيف موحد للسلع خدمة للإغراض التجارية والإنتاجية To set a unification classification for the commodity to serve the production and trade purposes .
2- In order to, provide a comparable data of International trade for trade, economic and international negotiations purposes
3- To build a new structure whether by merging, dividing or detailed for chapters and authentic items to meet the requirements of trade and international statistics .
4- Developing the customs tax structure to implement the finance and economic reform plan, in order to, conform to the economic circumstances .

Statistics of foreign trade depends on the general trade system, where the customs certificate delivered to CAPMAS after the customs clearance during the issued month for this bulletin (commodity flow) .
The monthly brief of foreign trade data includes :
1- Trade Balance .
2- Imports and Exports by Ports .
3- Most important imports and exports by the most important commodity and commodity groups .
4- Geographical distribution by areas and most important countries .
5- Free zone imports and exports with the local markets by commodity groups .
6- Free zone imports and exports with world countries by commodity groups – geographical distribution

CAPMAS is releasing a series of monthly bulletins of foreign trade data with the hope that it will achieve the desired goals from these data .