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Customs – National Foreign Trade Statistics – January 2021

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In France, according to a tradition that dates back more than two centuries, it is the General Directorate of Customs and indirect duties that establish the trade balance. It traces only the exchanges goods and not services. Information on trade in goods is collected on the basis of exchange declarations goods (DEB) for trade with the other 27 Member States and customs declarations (SAD) for trade with other countries (named third countries). Each month, the statistical collection covers exchanges in the reference month (month of publication) **The presentation by product** External trade statistics are presented according to different product classifications. It will be recalled that external trade statistics only track trade in goods and not services. NC8: The 8-digit Combined Nomenclature (CN8), used for reporting obligations operators with customs, allows a detailed knowledge of the foreign trade of the France: it has just under 10000 headings. _This nomenclature is not available to present regional statistics and_ _departments for reasons of confidentiality._.