Early Stage Processing of International Trade and Input-Output Data for SALTER

Contents

1   Introduction

2   Scope, standards and concordances 
Country and commodity-industry standards 
SALTER industry link to ISIC 
SALTER classification concordances

3   International trade data 
Data sources 
Countries except Australia 
Australia 
Filling gaps in the international trade data 
Amending the original data 
Imports for Australia and Canada 
Re-allocating Hong Kong re-exports (other than for China, Taiwan and Rest of the World) 
Hong Kong trade data (net of re-exports) 
Trade between Indonesia and Singapore 
China's trade with Korea and Thailand 
Creating reporter country data for China and Taiwan 
Output

4   Input-output data 
Background 
Sources of input-output data 
Classification mapping 
Principles and procedures for processing imports in input-output data 
Non-square input-output tables 
Final input-output tables

Appendix A   Classification concordances

Appendix B   International goods valuation margins

Appendix C   Hong Kong international trade data

Appendix D   International trade data

Appendix E   Input-output data

Appendix F   Computer aspects

References