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Contents

Part One. Introduction and Summary

Main Perspectives

Background and Objectives

Major Contributions

Statistical Contents

Main Prospective Uses of the Data

Standardization of Trade Classifications

Three Classification Systems

Interrelationships of the Three Systems

The Major Statistical Series

Origin-Destination of Total Trade: 9 Countries Plus CEMA (Series I)

Commodity Composition of Total Trade: 9 Countries Plus CEMA (Series II)

Commodity Composition by East European Trade Partner: 3 Reporting Countries (Series III)

Commodity Composition of Trade with West Europe: 7 Countries Plus CEMA (Series IV)

Commodity Composition of Trade with CPEs and Non-CPEs: 2 Countries (Series V)

Part Two. Statistical Series

Conventions and Symbols

Contents of Part Two

I. Total Import and Export Trade by East European Country with Other Individual East European Countries, Other Centrally Planned Economies, More Developed Countries, and Less Developed Countries (millions of current dollars)

II. Total Import and Export Trade by East European Country by One-Digit CTN Categories (CTN), by One-Digit SITC Categories (SITC), and by BEC Categories (BEC) (millions of Current dollars)

III. Import and Export Trade of U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, and Poland with Individual East European Countries by One-Digit CTN Categories (CTN) and by BEC Categories (BEC) (millions of current dollars)

IV. Import and Export Trade of Combined West Europe with Individual European CEMA Countries by One-Digit SITC Categories (SITC) and by BEC Categories (BEC) (millions of current dollars)

V. Hungary and Poland: Import and Export Trade with Combined Centrally Planned and Combined Non-Centrally Planned Economies by CTN Broad Divisions (millions of current dollars)

Part Three. Notes and Documentation

Key to the Citations

A. Constructing the Record

Origin-Destinations of Total Trade (Series I)

Standardization

Special Problems

Commodity Composition of Total Trade and Trade by East European Trade Partner (Series II and III)

Standardization According to CTN

Standardization According to SITC and BEC

Commodity Composition of Trade with West Europe (Series IV)

B. Documentation

Statistical Series I

Statistical Series II

Statistical Series III

Statistical Series IV

Statistical Series V

Part Four. Appendices on Subjects of Special Interest

A. Three Commodity Trade Classifications

CEMA Trade Nomenclature (CTN)

Classification System

Revised and Enlarged 1971 Edition

Standard International Trade Classification (SITC)

Classification System and Limitations

Broad Economic Categories (BEC)

Classification System

B. Reconciliation of Classifications

CTN and BEC Classifications Compared

An Original Conversion Key

Special Problems and Evaluation

The United Nations' Conversion Key

New Conversion Key for U.S.S.R. Total Trade

C. Socialist Trade Prices and the Valuation Problem

Concept of Transaction Value

Transaction Values in “National Devisa Units”

Foreign Trade Prices of East European Countries

D. Some Main Problems of Statistical Comparability

General and Special Reporting Systems

Concepts and United Nations Recommendations

East European Procedures

Estimated Re-Export Trade of East Germany and Hungary

Coverage of Merchandise Trade

United Nations Recommendations

East European Procedures

Transport and Related Expenses

Identification of Partner Country

United Nations Recommendations

East European Procedures

E. The Case of the Unspecified U.S.S.R. Residuals

Exports to Less Developed Countries

Commodity Composition of Total Trade

F. Trade with United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia

G. Available East European Foreign Trade Series in Constant Prices, 1938-1970

H. IDRC Soviet and East European Foreign Trade Data Bank

Tables

Part One

1 CTN Classification: Numbering and Titles of One-Digit Commodity Categories and Four Broad Divisions

2 SITC Classification: Numbering and Titles of One-Digit Commodity Categories and Two Subtotals

3 BEC Classification: Numbering and Titles of 7 Large Economic Classes and 19 Basic Categories

4 Correspondence of BEC “Larger” Economic Classes with CTN Categories and Broad Divisions

Part Two

See list of Statistical Series tables on p. 18.

Part Three

5 Classification of Countries into MDC and LDC Groups by the United Nations and by East European Countries

6 Coverage by Country of West Europe as a Group in Trade with East Europe, 1950-1968

7 Trade between West Germany and East Germany, 1950-1969 287

8 Bulgaria's Total Trade, Revised and Unrevised, 1955-1956

9 East Germany's Trade with Other Centrally Planned Economies, 1953-1959

10 Hungary: Revised and Unrevised Series and Corresponding Adjustments, 1952-1956

11 Rumania: Alternative Estimates of Trade with Total CPEs and Total Non-CPEs, 1950, 1955

12 Percent of “Specified Trade” Converted from CTN to SITC by Each of the Three Conversion Keys, 1946-1969

13 Percent of U.S.S.R. Total Trade Converted to BEC by Special Allocation, 1946-1969

14 Percent of Bulgaria's Total Trade Converted to BEC by Special Allocation, 1955-1968

15 U.S.S.R. Exports to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany: Percent of Total Exports Converted to BEC by Special Allocation, 1946-1968

16 Czechoslovakia's Imports from East European Countries: Percent of Total Imports Converted to BEC by Special Allocation, 1958-1968

17 Czechoslovakia's Exports to East European Countries: Percent of Total Exports Converted to BEC by Special Allocation, 1958-1968

Part Four

A-1 CEMA Trade Nomenclature (CTN), Three Digits (effective 1962-1970)

A-2 Revisions in the 1971 CTN: New Codes

A-3 Revisions in the 1971 CTN: Transferred Codes

A-4 Revisions in the 1971 CTN: Changes in Commodity Designations

A-5 Standard International Trade Classification, Revised (SITC), Two Digits

A-6 BEC Aggregates by Broad End Use and Basic SNA Classes 326

B-1 Correspondence of BEC Large Economic Classes with CTN Commodity Categories and Groups

B-2 A Comparison of BEC Large Economic Classes and CTN Broad Divisions

B-3 Combined Broad Economic Categories (BEC) and Corresponding CTN Headings

B-4 Conversion of CEMA Trade Nomenclature (CTN) to Combined Broad Economic Categories (BEC)

B-5 Conversion of Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) to Combined Broad Economic Categories (BEC)

B-6 Conversion of CEMA Trade Nomenclature (CTN) to Standard International Trade Classification (SITC)

C-1 Official Exchange Rates of East European Countries, 1946-1969

D-1 East German Imports for Re-Export, and Re-Exports, by Region or Country of Provenance or Destination, 1966

D-2 Hungarian Special Trade, General Trade, Imports for Re-Export, and Re-Exports, 1951-1968

D-3 Coverage of East Europe's Foreign Trade Statistics Compared with U.N. 1970 Recommendations

E-1 U.S.S.R. Trade with Less Developed Countries: Comparison of LDC Group Total with Sum of Trade Reported by Component Countries, 1946-1970

E-2 U.S.S.R. Imports by CTN Categories: Comparison of Percentage Composition Given (G) and Summed (S), 1946, 1950, 1955, 1958-1969

E-3 U.S.S.R. Exports by CTN Categories: Comparison of Percentage Composition Given (G) and Summed (S), 1946, 1950, 1955, 1958-1969

E-4 U.S.S.R. Trade: Comparison of Alternative Estimates of Percentage Composition by CTN Categories, 1946, 1950, 1955, 1958-1969

E-5 CTN Classification: Titles of “Alternative” Broad Divisions and Corresponding One-Digit CTN Categories

E-6 U.S.S.R. Trade by CTN Categories: Comparison of Percentage Composition Shown in Various Sources

E-7 U.S.S.R. Trade: Comparison of Alternative Estimates of Percentage Composition by CTN Categories, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1969

E-8 U.S.S.R.: Imports and Exports by CTN Categories plus Unspecified Trade, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1969

F-1 United States Trade with U.S.S.R.: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-2 United States Trade with Bulgaria: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-3 United States Trade with Czechoslovakia: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-4 United States Trade with East Germany: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-5 United States Trade with Hungary: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-6 United States Trade with Poland: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-7 United States Trade with Rumania: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-8 United States Trade with Yugoslavia: Total 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-9 United States Trade with European CEMA: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-10 Canada's Trade with U.S.S.R.: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-11 Canada's Trade with Bulgaria: Total 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-12 Canada's Trade with Czechoslovakia: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-13 Canada's Trade with East Germany: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-14 Canada's Trade with Hungary: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-15 Canada's Trade with Poland: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-16 Canada's Trade with Rumania: Total 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-17 Canada's Trade with Yugoslavia: Total 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-18 Canada's Trade with European CEMA: Total, 1946-1969, by SITC Categories, 1961-1969

F-19 Japan's Trade with U.S.S.R.: Total, 1950-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-20 Japan's Trade with Bulgaria: Total, 1960, 1964-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-21 Japan's Trade with Czechoslovakia: Total, 1958-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-22 Japan's Trade with East Germany: Total, 1951-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-23 Japan's Trade with Hungary: Total, 1958-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-24 Japan's Trade with Poland: Total, 1951-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-25 Japan's Trade with Rumania: Total, 1960-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-26 Japan's Trade with Yugoslavia: Total, 1951-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-27 Japan's Trade with European CEMA: Total, 1961-1969, by SITC Categories, 1964-1969

F-28 Australia's Trade with Individual East European Countries and European CEMA, 1949/50-1969/70

G Available East European Foreign Trade Series in Constant Prices, 1938-1970

Figures

1 Data Bank System Arrangement

2 The Data Structure on Computer Tape

Soviet and East European Foreign Trade, 1946-1969

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