Data Submission to the Federal Statistical Office (W3stat)

Since the internal borders within the European Union (EU) were abolished, the movement of goods between EU Member States are no longer covered by customs authorities; instead enterprises themselves transmit the data directly to the Federal Statistical Office. The respondents transmit some 7 million items per month. The w3stat system presented here is a service provided by the Federal Statistical Office which allows the submission of declarations of foreign trade statistics via the internet. The W3stat system in intra-Community trade statistics is part of a system which produces electronic statistics without switches between media, from data collection and internal processing to the publication of results. Within w3stat, enterprises may select between two types of declaration: ? they may either compile and transmit their foreign trade data using a form provided on-line, or ? they may transmit their data using a declaration file. The w3stat system offers a program called IDES which enables the offline compilation of the data to be declared. The compiled data can then be transmitted on-line direct to the Federal Statistical Office as a declaration file.

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Return on investment

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