Preface

The 2012 International Trade Statistics Yearbook (2012 ITSY) is the sixty-first edition of this yearbook. Its objective is to inform about the detailed merchandise imports and exports of individual countries (areas) by commodity and partner country (volume I), the world trade in individual commodities (3-digit SITC groups) (volume II) and total world trade - up to the year 2012. The two volumes are prepared at different points in time during 2013: Volume I - Trade by Country is made electronically available in June and Volume II - Trade by Commodity in December, as the preparation of the tables in Volume II requires additional country data which, normally, become available later in the year.

Related Subject(s): International Trade and Finance