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Methodology

This section provides links to downloadable documents for understanding how WITS calculates statistics. Documents are also available as compressed files (zip format).

• UNCTAD Coding System of Trade Control Measures (Codes valid for data from 1988 to 2008)
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• Multi-Agency Classification of Non-Tariff Measures (tba), (Codes valid for data from 2009 including a few pilot study countries of 2008)
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• UNCTAD, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, "Calculation Of Ad Valorem Equivalents Of Non-Ad Valorem Tariffs - Methodology Notes", DRAFT – October 2001.
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• WTO, Negotiating Group on Market Access, "Incidence Of Non-Ad Valorem Tariffs In Members' Tariff Schedules And Possible Approaches To The Estimation Of Ad Valorem Equivalents", TN/MA/S/10, 20 May 2003
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• Martin W.,"Optimal indexes of Protection", note, October 2003.
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• Brenton P.,"Export Diversification Issues and Indicators", note, October 2009.
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• Cadot O.,"A Guide To Trade Data Analysis, note, September 2010.
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• Sam Laird & Alexander Yeats, "THE UNCTAD TRADE POLICY SIMULATION MODEL - A note on the methodology, data and uses", October 1986.
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• Joseph Francois & H. Keith Hall, "Global Simulation Analysis of Industry-Level Trade Policy", October 2002.
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