External Trade Statistics Bulletin April 2022
External Trade Statistics Bulletin April 2022
The Bureau has released the External Trade Statistics Bulletin April 2022 which presents International Merchandise trade statistics (exports and imports flows) between Uganda and the rest of the world as compiled from Customs and Non-Customs data sources. International merchandise trade statistics record all goods which add to, or subtract from, the stock of material resources of a country by entering (as imports) or leaving (as exports) its economic territory. The data compiled from customs and commodity authorities is herein referred to as Formal exports and imports. The compilation of International Merchandise Trade Statistics is based on the General Trade System and coded according to Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System 2017 (HS2017) and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC Rev4) commodity nomenclatures as prescribed in the International Merchandise Trade Statistics manual 2010 (IMTS2010). In February 2022, total trade increased by 15.4 percent to US$ 1,088.1
million from US$ 943.2 million recorded in January 2022. Total exports increased by 15.3 percent to US$ 289.8 million in February 2022 from US$ 251.4 million recorded in January 2022. Total imports flows increased by 15.4 percent to US$ 798.3 million in February 2022 from US$ 691.8 million registered in January 2022. … Click for more
