| Autor: |
Versino, C., Chatelus, R., Cojazzi, G. G. M., Contini, F., Tarvainen, M., Tsois, A. |
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Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting; 2010, p1-10, 10p, 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts, 1 Map |
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In the framework of a European Commission Support Programme Task, the IAEA and the European Commission Joint Research Centre have conducted a survey of world trade data from open sources. As a result, a catalogue was produced. This contained a list of those 'services' that provide statistical and transactional trade data on all categories of goods. Statistical data generally cover the whole world and are often provided for free by international and governmental organizations, and statistical offices. Data on trade transactions, typically provided by private companies, can be national or multinational in scope. The survey was based upon the hypothesis that trade databases may be useful in support of IAEA verification activities. For instance, trade data may provide insights to support the verification of additional protocol declarations and nuclear material transfers, as well as give indications of possible undeclared activities. Since trade data is indexed in data services by the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature of goods, a prerequisite to use this type of data is to 'map' items of interest to safeguards verification with HS categories. This paper reviews available world trade data services, with an emphasis on geographical and temporal coverage, type of data provided and accessibility. It then addresses the challenging task of correlating categories of items of interest with HS codes. The paper concludes by exploring some possible uses of trade data for nuclear verification purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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