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| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness | ||||||||||||
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation Exports are presented by aggregate factor (commodities and industrialized products, the latter divided into manufactured and semi-manufactured); by product group; primary products by order of value; primary products by aggregate factor; primary products by country; by country and economic bloc; and by production area (states of the federation).Imports are presented by product group; by primary product with a breakdown by aggregate factor and by country; by country and economic bloc; by production area; and by major enterprises, with a breakdown for enterprises by value bracket. The trade balance is also presented by country and economic bloc, as well as by section and chapter of the MERCOSUR Common Classification (NCM). | |||||||||||
| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity Monthly | |||||||||||
| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness Whithin three weeks after the end of the reference month. | |||||||||||
| Access by the Public | ||||||||||||
| Advance dissemination of release calendar | 5.1.3 Advance release calendar An advance release calendar that gives one quarter ahead notice of the precise release dates is published on the website of the Central Bank of Brazil (http://www.bcb.gov.br/sddsi/calendar_i.htm), and on the IMF’s | |||||||||||
| Simultaneous release to all interested parties | 5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are released in a press release and in the bulletin "Balança Comercial Brasileira" [Brazilian Balance of Trade] published by the Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the MDIC. The information is made available on the Internet at the same time (http://www.mdic.gov.br). | |||||||||||
| Integrity | ||||||||||||
| Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information | 0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics The Decree 660 (9/25/92) created the Integrated Foreign Trade System (SISCOMEX), which is an administrative tool that integrates the activities of recording, monitoring, and controlling foreign trade operations, stipulating that "information on foreign trade operations [...] will be processed exclusively through SISCOMEX, starting on the date of its implementation." This affects the compilation and the monitoring of all the external trade data, because the SISCOMEX necessarily centralizes all the information on imports and exports of the country. 1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination The Decree 660 and the Provisional Measure 1799 are available in Portuguese to the public at the website page of the Presidency of the Republic, under search of decrees, provisional measures and laws (http://www.planalto.gov.br). | |||||||||||
| Identification of internal government access to data before release | 1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release No authority outside the MDIC and the Ministry of Finance is given advance access. | |||||||||||
| Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases | 1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products In the presentation of balance of trade data, the MDIC comments on the published data. | |||||||||||
| Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology | 4.3.1 Revision schedule Preliminary monthly data on exports and imports of goods, and the balance of trade are released in a press release by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (MDIC), in current values, and are not seasonally adjusted.For exports, the data are considered final at the end of the first half of the following year. As for imports, there is still no set closing schedule. 4.3.2 Identification of preliminary and/or revised data The preliminary data are duly identified as such, and corrections are made whenever recording errors are detected.1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. Changes in methodology and the method of compiling data are published on a timely basis in the monthly bulletin. | |||||||||||
| Quality | ||||||||||||
| Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics | 5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques Although no documentation is disseminated at present, information on the methodology can be provided by the contact person above on request.5.2.2 Disseminated level of detail The monthly bulletin contains detailed information, namely: exports by primary product, by primary product and destination country, imports by primary product, by primary product and country of origin. Monthly data are also published on exports and imports with MERCOSUR countries (Balança Comercial Brasileira: - MERCOSUR), also available on the Internet at (http://www.mdic.gov.br). (See also summary methodology) | |||||||||||
| Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness | 4.2.1 Internal consistency
SISCOMEX is a system that obligatorily integrates -- in a single format -- the activities of recording, monitoring, and controlling all Brazilian foreign trade operations. The Press Release (Nota para a Imprensa) of the Central Bank's External Sector section and the Central Bank Annual Report include merchandise trade data that could be used for cross-checking the balance of payments. | |||||||||||
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