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International merchandise trade statistics (www.oecd.org/std/trade-goods) play a vital role in OECD's monitoring, analysis and outlook work for OECD countries. The availability of timely aggregates (monthly data)and detailed commodity trade flows (yearly data) become increasingly important.

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First meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS), Paris, 22-24 September 2008

from 22-Sep-2008 to 24-Sep-2008

The first meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS) will be held in Paris on 22-24 September 2008 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris.

Merchandise trade volume growth remains sluggish in first quarter 2008

31-Jul-2008

Despite a modest recovery of quarterly trade volumes (2.5% for exports and 0.4% for imports), year-on-year import volume growth of the Group of Seven continued to slow in the first quarter 2008 to only 1.0%, the lowest rate since the first quarter 2006. Exports were up 5.6% in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007.
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