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1、ReportontheStatisticalDiscrepancyofMerchandiseTradeBetweentheUnitedStatesandChinaOctober2009Hangzhou,P.R.C19AbstractInApril2004,the15thU.S.-ChinaJointCommissiononCommerceandTrade(JCCT)establishedastatisticalworkinggroup.ParticipatingunitsfromtheChinesesideincludetheMinistryofCommerceoft

2、hePeople’sRepublicofChinaandtheChineseGeneralAdministrationofCustoms;theU.S.sideincludestheU.S.DepartmentofCommerceandtheOfficeoftheU.S.TradeRepresentative.Inviewoftheunusuallylargeandgrowingstatisticaldiscrepanciesinthebilateralmerchandisetradedataofficiallypublishedbytwocountries,thei

3、nitialfocusoftheworkinggroupwastoexaminethebilateralmerchandisetradestatisticsbetweenChinaandtheUnitedStates.Membersagreedtoconductareconciliationstudy,usingrecentdata,toexplainandquantifythestatisticaldiscrepanciesinthebilateralmerchandisetradedata.Thegoalofthestudyisnottoaltertheoffic

4、ialstatisticsofeithercountry,buttoidentifythecausesofthestatisticaldiscrepanciesintheofficialdataofthetwocountries,andtofacilitateacommonunderstandingbydatausersoftheactualsituationofthebilateraltradeandthecausesofthestatisticaldiscrepanciesinthebilateraltradedata.Adjustmentsmadetostati

5、sticaldata,toachievemutuallyagreeduponsetsoftradefigures,donotimplyerrorsinthestatisticalsystemsofeithercountry.Neitherdotheadjustmentsrepresentrevisionsorcorrectionstoeithercountry’spublishedtradefigures.Previously,in1994,atradestatisticsworkinggroupwasestablishedatthe8thU.S.-ChinaJCCT

6、meetingtoaddresstheissueofdiscrepanciesinthebilateraltradestatistics.ThemainconclusionreachedwasthatgoodsshippedindirectlyfromChinaviaHongKongandotherintermediarycountriesorregionsaccountforalargepartofthediscrepancyintheU.S.-Chinabilateraltradestatistics.Althoughbothcountriesfollowthes

7、ameinternationalguidelinesonmerchandisetradestatisticsprograms,thecorrespondingimportandexportstatisticsfrombothcountrieswillnotnecessarilymatch.Differencesinpartnercountryattributionandvalueaddedinintermediarycountriesorregionsaremajorcausesofthediscrepanciesinindirecttradefro