| ACP |
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States |
| 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 |
|
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 Co-operation 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 |
| c.i.f. |
cost, insurance and freight |
| f.o.b. |
free on board |
| n.e.s. |
not elsewhere specified |
| n.i.e. |
not included elsewhere |
| ...
|
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.
