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          Monthly bulletin of foreign trade Feb. 2017
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          DDI-CAPMAS-2017-V01
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          CAPMAS
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            Egyptian Customs Authority
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        <othId role="Export customs certificate " affiliation="Ministry of Trade and Industry ">
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            General Organization for Export and Import Control
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        </othId>
        <othId role="Export and Import of crude petroleum and its products" affiliation="Ministry of Petroleum">
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            Ministry of Petroleum
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        </othId>
        <othId role="Export and Import of Electricity " affiliation="Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy  ">
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            Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy
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          CAPMAS
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          Issue- 1
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    <citation>
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        <titl>
          Monthly bulletin of foreign trade Feb. 2017
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        <altTitl>
          <![CDATA[February  2017]]>
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        <parTitl>
          <![CDATA[Monthly Bulletin of Foreign Trade Data .February  - 2017]]>
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          EGY-CAPMAS-ForeignTrade.February-2017-V01
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        <AuthEnty>
          CAPMAS
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        <othId role="CAPMAS provides the customs certificate for the import and export in non-petroleum data" affiliation="Ministry of Finance">
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            Egyptian Customs Authority
          </p>
        </othId>
        <othId role="CAPMAS provides the export in non-petroleum data " affiliation="Ministry of Trade and Industry">
          <p>
            General Organization for Export and Import Control
          </p>
        </othId>
        <othId role="CAPMAS provides the import and export of petroleum data" affiliation="Ministry of Petroleum">
          <p>
            Ministry of Petroleum
          </p>
        </othId>
        <othId role="CAPMAS provides the import and export of electricity data" affiliation="Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy">
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            Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy
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        </othId>
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      <prodStmt>
        <producer affiliation="Ministry of Finance" role="CAPMAS provides the customs certificate for the import and export in non-petroleum data ">
          Egyptian Customs Authority
        </producer>
        <producer affiliation="Ministry of Petroleum" role="CAPMAS provides the import and export of petroleum data">
          Ministry of Petroleum
        </producer>
        <producer/>
        <copyright>
          (c)CAPMAS ,
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        <software version="4.0.9" date="2013-04-23">
          Nesstar Publisher
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      <distStmt>
        <distrbtr abbr="capmas" affiliation="Ministry of Economic Development">
          CAPMAS
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        <contact affiliation="CAPMAS" URI="http://www.capmas.gov.eg" email=" pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg ">
          CAPMAS Head office
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      </distStmt>
      <serStmt>
        <serName>
          Trade Statistics
        </serName>
        <serInfo>
          <![CDATA[Foreign Trade bulletin  issued monthly and  annually]]>
        </serInfo>
      </serStmt>
      <verStmt>
        <version date="2017-04-30">
          <![CDATA[V2.1 Edited dataset, for general distribution]]>
        </version>
      </verStmt>
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      <subject>
        <keyword vocab="Export">
          <![CDATA[Export by ports during  2017]]>
        </keyword>
        <keyword vocab="Import">
          <![CDATA[Import by ports during  2017 ]]>
        </keyword>
        <topcClas vocab="HS">
        Harmonized System 2007 HS, Country  and Port guied
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      </subject>
      <abstract>
        <![CDATA[C.A.P.M.AS is pleased to continue issuing "Monthly Bulletin of Foreign Trade", which was issued since January 2008 according to the statistical guide for harmonized tariff items consisting of (10) limits and prepared according to harmonized tariff terms issued by Republic President No. (39) for 2007 on 5 February 2007.
This bulletin includes cumulative data from January to March 2017.

Harmonized Tariff aims to achieve the following purposes:
1-	Make a standard description of commodities to serve trade and productivity purposes .
2-	Providing comparable data on international trade for trade economic and international negotiations 
3-	Establishing a new structure for commodities either by merging or breaking down and providing details of the original chapters and items to meet the demands of trade and international statistics .
4-	Developing customs tax structure to implement the financial and economic reform plan to cope with the economic and social circumstances .

Foreign trade statistics are based on  general  system  including customs certificates, which are supplied to the CAPMAS after customs clearance during the issued  month of the bulletin (commodity flow).Foreign trade Monthly Bulletin Includes::
1-	Trade Balance .
2-	Export and import (according to port)..
3-	Exports and imports (according to the commodity groups and the most important commodities). 
4-	Exports and imports (according to geographical regions and the most important countries).
5-	Free zone imports and exports with the local market according to the commodity group.
6-	Imports and exports of free zones with countries of the world according to commodity group - geographical distribution)) 
	
	

CAPMAS releases  monthly  foreign trade  bulletin in order to achieve desired  objectives..]]>
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        <timePrd date="2017-02-01" event="start" cycle="Momthly"/>
        <timePrd date="2017-02-28" event="end" cycle="Momthly"/>
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        <collDate date="2017-03-30" event="end" cycle="Momthly"/>
        <nation abbr="Egy">
          Arab republic of Egypt
        </nation>
        <geogCover>
          <![CDATA[Monthly  foreign trade bulletin covers all customs ports in Egypt according to the General Regulations]]>
        </geogCover>
        <anlyUnit>
        	Customs certificates from the Customs Authority,  General Authority of export and import Control, the Ministry of Petroleum and  Ministry of Electricity
        </anlyUnit>
        <universe>
        	All customs certificates for exports and imports that have been released in accordance with the General Regulations shall apply to the period of research received from all customs ports in Arab Republic of Egypt
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          	Aggregated data
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      <notes>
        <![CDATA[Foreign trade Monthly Bulletin Includes
1-	Trade Balance .
2-	Exports and imports by ports.
3-	Exports and imports by commodity groups .
4- Trade exchange between Egypt and all countries by economic Cartels]]>
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        <timeMeth>
        Customs certificates are issued for import from  Customs Authority within  month and ten days from  date of the reference month. Export  sent by General Authority for  Control of Exports and Imports within 10 days of reference month.  Ministry of Petroleum and Ministry of Electricity sent their data within 20 days of the reference month
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        <dataCollector affiliation="http://www.customs.gov.eg/">
          Egyptian Customs Authority
        </dataCollector>
        <dataCollector affiliation="E-mail:momran96@gmail.com">
           General Organization for Export and Import Control 
        </dataCollector>
        <dataCollector>
          Ministry of Petroleum
        </dataCollector>
        <dataCollector>
          Ministry of Electricity
        </dataCollector>
        <collMode>
          Personal interview with computer assist 
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          <![CDATA[Since January 2008, it began to apply the general system including all custom clearance system , which represents all imported and exported commodity flows through the Egyptian ports and applied the manual statistics of the 10 digits of (Harmonized Customs Tariff )  following a presidential decree No. (39) of 2007 dated (5th  February ,2007) .
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        <sources/>
        <collSitu>
          <![CDATA[Data collection 
Non-petroleum imports, are obtained through Customs Authority website, through it’s Central Administration of Statistics.
Exports data is provided by (G.O.E.I.C) through a statistical form designed specifically for this purpose.
Ministry of Petroleum are the source of petroleum exports and imports .
Ministry of Electricity and Energy is the source of export and import energy data]]>
        </collSitu>
        <cleanOps>
          <![CDATA[1-The program runs the purification errors when recording data
2-Errors are reviewed from errors purification program
3-The non-selected errors are sent to the sources for review
4-Errors are reviewed after being received from sites]]>
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      <notes>
        Data are entered according to prepared programs in Economic and Mobilization Statistics sector
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        <confDec required="yes">
          	The site does not disseminate individual data
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        <contact URI="www.capmas.gov.eg" email="pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg ">
        CAPMAS
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          <![CDATA[

Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Annual Bulletin of Foreign Trade Data, 2013, version 1.1 of the data set available for public use..]]>
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        <conditions>
         It is prohibited to publish  without reference to Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
        </conditions>
        <disclaimer>
          <![CDATA[Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics provides you with this data without any guarantees And without incurring any implied liability of the results or conclusions on those resultsAnd without incurring any implied liability of the results or conclusions on those results and will not be  responsible for any activities carried out on such results or data]]>
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