Distributive and International Trade Statistics
Distributive trade statistics presented in this chapter were obtained from the National
Statistical Office.
The National Statistical Office has carried out the annual survey of Business
Trading and Services since
1968
and the said survey has been conducted every two years.
The survey covers business establishment with
1
person engaged or more in Bangkok,
Pattaya, municipal areas and non-municipal areas, forming as sub-district administration
organization (Tumbon Administrative Organization), throughout the country which
engaged in the activities under some categories, i.e. G, H,
K
and O of the Inernational
Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities(ISIC; Rev.
3
).
In
2003
, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has collaborated with the NSO to collect
data used for economic tourism indicator.
International trade statistics presented in this chapter have been derived from the
Customs Department, Ministry of Finance.
International trade statistics have been the classification of commodities as followed the
method used in “Thailand Trade Nomenclature, sixth, edition,
1970
” which provided commodity
codes on the basis of the Brussels Tariff Nomenclature. Since
1977
, the Thailand Trade
Nomenclature has been based on the Brussels Tariff Nomenclature (the Customs Cooperation
Council Nomenclature, CCCN.) with conversion to the Standard International Trade Classification
Rev.
2
(SITC.) The Customs Department published this book to assist the users for the study and
comparison of statistical commodity data of different countries to be more beneficial to the
international trade. Since
1988
, the classification of commodities has based on the Harmonized
System (H.S.).
