Survey Information
Survey Name:
Intrastat collection of intra-EU merchandise trade data
Business Area:
External Trade, External Trade and Environment.
Survey Purpose:
Collection of intra EU merchandies trade statistics
Legislative Basis:
European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 (repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91) and Commission Regulation (EC) 1982/2004 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States.
Periodicity:
CSO get the data on a monthly basis from VIMA
Target Population:
All VAT registered traders
Sampling Frame:
All traders (identified by VAT number) whose annual imports exceed €191,000 or annual exports exceed €635,000
Survey Size:
Approximately 7000 traders. These comprise some 6,000 importers and 2,000 exporters some of which are involved in both importing and exporting of merchandise goods.
Principal Variables Collected:
Date, Company Vat Number, Type (import/export), Commodity code (CN), Invoice value, Net mass and/ or supplementary units, country of destination/consignment for exports/imports respectively, country of origin for imports, Statistical value, Delivery terms, Mode of transport, nature of transaction.
Principal External Users:
Eurostat, Media, Companies, Public, PQs, Other Government Departments and internally within CSO
Contact Points
Business Area Specialists:
Damian Malone
Norita Murphy
The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie
Methodology Documents
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