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Overseas Merchandise Trade: August 2016 will be released on 26 September 2016.
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Goods and Services Trade by Country has annual goods and services trade in a single information release. This provides a comprehensive picture of economic trade between New Zealand and our main trading partners, by combining information on commodities and services.
Data quality
Period-specific information
Overseas Merchandise Trade: July 2016 – DataInfo+
Methodology used for this release and revisions to provisional values published in our previous release.
General information
Overseas Merchandise Trade – DataInfo+
General methodology used to produce overseas merchandise trade statistics.
Overseas Merchandise Trade concepts – DataInfo+
Definitions of terms used in this release.
Principles and protocols for producers of Tier 1 statistics
Statistics in this release have been produced in accordance with the Official Statistics System principles and protocols for producers of Tier 1 statistics for quality. They conform to the Statistics NZ methodological Standard for Reporting of Data Quality.
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Information on the value of New Zealand's transactions with the rest of the world and our international financial assets and liabilities.
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Three-monthly snapshots represent the country's income earned from production in New Zealand.
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Economic indicators of how the manufacturing sector is performing.
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