Annex Appendix List of goods and movements excluded from European statistics on international trade in goods

monetary gold;

means of payment which are legal tender and securities, including means which are payments for services such as postage, taxes, user fees;

goods for or following temporary use (e.g. hire, loan, operational leasing), provided all the following conditions are met:

• no processing is or was planned or carried out,

• the expected duration of the temporary use was or is not intended to be longer than 24 months,

• the intra-Union export/import has not to be declared as an intra-Union supply/acquisition for VAT purposes or no change of ownership took place or is intended to take place for extra-Union export/import;

goods moving between:

• a Member State and its territorial enclaves in other Member States or non-member countries, and

• the host Member State and territorial enclaves of other Member States, non-member countries or international organisations.

Territorial enclaves include embassies, consulates, military bases and scientific bases outside the territory of the mother country;

goods used as carriers of customised information, including software;

data and software downloaded from the internet;

goods supplied free of charge which are themselves not the subject of a commercial transaction, provided that the movement is with the sole intention of preparing or supporting an intended subsequent trade transaction by demonstrating the characteristics of goods or services such as:

• advertising material,

• commercial samples;

goods for and after repair or maintenance and replacement parts that are incorporated in the framework of the repair or maintenance and replaced defective parts;

means of transport travelling in the course of their work, including spacecraft launchers at the time of launching;

goods declared orally to Customs authorities which are either of a commercial nature provided that their value does not exceed the extra-Union trade statistical threshold of EUR 1 000 in value or 1 000 kg in net mass, or of a non-commercial nature;

goods released for free circulation after being subject to the customs procedures of inward processing are excluded from extra-Union trade in goods;

periodicals under subscription;

Personal property belonging to natural persons transferring their normal place of residence; trousseaux and household effects belonging to a person transferring his or her normal place of residence on the occasion of his or her marriage; personal property acquired by inheritance; school outfits, educational materials and related household effects; coffins containing bodies, funerary urns containing the ashes of deceased persons, and ornamental funerary articles transported with the coffins and urns; goods for charitable or philanthropic organisations and goods for the benefit of disaster victims.