Foreign trade in goods

Foreign trade data provide composite information on cross-country trade in breakdown by type of commodities (divisions) and by country group. Foreign trade data are used for identifying country’s trade partners and principle exports and imports.

Payers of Value Added Tax (VAT) of EU Member States delivering/acquiring commodities or representatives of these persons in tax issues and:

1. persons delivering/acquiring commodities to/from EU Member States and having concluded an agreement, except transportation agreement, in line with which the commodities are delivered/acquired,
2. persons delivering/acquiring commodities to/from EU Member States or have them delivered/acquired,
3. persons having commodities to be delivered/acquired to/from EU Member States in tenure

To acquired foreign trade data enterprise survey is conducted:

• full-scope survey on trade with third countries;
• sample survey on trade with EU member states by a certain parameter, calculations, creating a threshold sample.

Net sample size

Sample size has been formed and optimised on the basis of exemption thresholds and specific thresholds set by the CSB. Exemption thresholds and specific thresholds are set separately for arrived and dispatched commodities so that the data acquired by the means of INTRASTAT surveys would cover at least 93% of the imports and 95% of the exports of the total trade volume between Latvia and EU member states.

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Statistics database

EU data on Eurostat website Section: Internatonal trade in goods.

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Foreign trade source data are:

• CSB Intrastat monthly surveys from enterprises in trade with EU countries: “Arrivals-Intrastat-1A”, “Arrivals-Intrastat-1B”, “Dispatches-Intrastat-2A”, “Dispatches-Intrastat-2B”.
  
• State Joint Stock Company Latvian Maritime Administration data of the integrated Ship Database of Latvia on ships and yachts registered and deleted from the Latvian Ship Register.
  
• Civil Aviation Agency data on aircrafts that are registered and deleted from the Register of Aircrafts of the Civil Aviation Aircraft Register of the Republic of Latvia.
  
  This information is used for collection and analysis of data on aircrafts and ships which in line with Section 21 of Chapter III of Annex V of Commission Implementing Regulation (EC) No 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 are considered as special commodities, for the transportation of which special regulations are applied.

• Data of the Single Administrative Document of the State Revenue Service Customs Board. This information is used for elaborating on overview of trade with third countries, as well as for supplementing Intrastat data with transactions in trade with EU Member States, carried out under customs control (IntraMuita).
  
• State Revenue Service Data Warehouse System. VAT declarations data on goods acquired/delivered to/from EU member states are received from it.
  
• Until 2013 inclusive, statistical data on foreign trade of electricity were obtained from Intrastat reports and customs declarations. Starting with 2014 monthly information from transmission system operator on transmission of electricity across the Latvian border (including transported via country) by partner countries, i.e., amount of physical flow of electricity expressed in MWh, and average monthly price indicated by Power Exchange “Nord Pool Spot AS” for calculation of value of physical flow of electricity in euros are used for accounting of electricity.
• Starting with the data of 2024, the export data has been supplemented with customs data received from other EU member states, where an export customs declaration was lodged for the export of goods to third countries, but Latvia was determined as the actual member state of export, or data on enterprises that exported goods from Latvia to third countries through other EU member states by filling in export customs declarations for the export of goods to third countries.

Sample size has been formed and optimised on the basis of exemption thresholds and specific thresholds set by the CSB. Exemption thresholds and specific thresholds are set separately for arrived and dispatched commodities so that the data acquired by the means of INTRASTAT surveys would cover at least 93% of the imports and 95% of the exports of the total trade volume between Latvia and EU member states.

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