Turks and Caicos Islands - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Turks and Caicos Islands was 43.34 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 13 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.87 in 2007 and a minimum value of 28.68 in 2001.

Definition: Manufactures comprise the commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (nonferrous metals).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1999 68.07
2000 32.89
2001 28.68
2002 28.86
2003 33.31
2004 35.21
2005 68.55
2006 69.45
2007 71.87
2008 67.48
2009 61.69
2011 41.63
2012 43.34

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports