FAO Trade Year Book - Vol 55, 2001

Abstract

This volume is the 55th edition of the FAO Trade Yearbook. The yearbook contains commodity trade tables (import and export, volume and value) for the years 1999-2001. The publication of this yearbook has been made possible by the cooperation of governments, which have supplied most of the information. FAO is grateful to governments and to international and other organizations for their cooperation in helping to compile the basic statistics used in preparing this volume. In general, figures h ave been supplied by governments through electronic media, national publications and FAO questionnaires. In particular, for EU member countries data obtained from EUROSTAT have been used. In addition, maximum use has been made of the data provided by the United Nations Statistics Division. To make the coverage of this yearbook as complete as possible, official trade data have sometimes been supplemented with data from unofficial sources. Use has also been made of trade information supplied by ot her national or international agencies or organizations.