# Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on Community statistics relating to external trade with non-member countries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 (Text with EEA relevance), Article 6: Compilation of external trade statistics

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs shall compile for each monthly reference period statistics on imports and exports of goods expressed in value and quantity by:
(a) goods code;
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(c) partner countries;
(d) statistical procedure;
(e) nature of the transaction;
(f) preferential treatment on import;
(g) mode of transport.
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2. The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics, namely the economic activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the common statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) and size-class measured in terms of number of employees.
The statistics shall be compiled by linking data on business characteristics recorded according to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 with the data recorded according to Article 5(1) of this Regulation on imports and exports. ...
3. Every two years the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs shall compile annual statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency.
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4. The compilation by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs of additional statistics for national purposes may be determined where the data are available on the customs declaration.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/471/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-471/article-6
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