The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) on Monday announced the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) for October.
The agreements are for intellectual property rights, technology, energy, trade statistics and business cooperation.
At the end of the year these purchases play a part in trade statistics.
Relying on old-fashioned trade statistics for 21st century policy decisions is a recipe for disaster.
Yesterday (Sept 9), the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) for July.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) posted the update of the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) on Monday.
It's dangerous, and almost certainly fruitless, to dwell on one month's trade statistics - or even three.
Global integration requires new thinking about trade statistics, which should be reported on a constituent value-added basis, if at all.
The treatment of foreign trade statistics in the GDP estimates is tricky, confusing, and may contribute to an unwarranted aversion to imports.
Trade statistics look at value, not value-added, so they include a lot of double counting as parts move across borders and back.
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
Increasingly, according to trade statistics, China is also not a primitive giant, producing labor-intensive goods that Americans should no longer even want to make.
That research also found that Chinese labor accounted for only a few dollars of the iPod's value, even though trade statistics credited China with producing its full value.
Most trade statistics simply fail to account for foreign investment.
But other countries do report their exports to North Korea, and figures through the end of 2010 are compiled in the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, or UN Comtrade.
Perhaps most interesting is that the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) which compiles numbers from all the charted companies except SanDisk showed aggregate bit growth lower than that of any of the companies on the chart.
Based on the 3-month rolling average that WSTS (the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics) uses November sales were the highest month of the year and the first month of 2012 to come in higher than the same month of 2011.
But when you look at it on a global basis, recent trade statistics suggest that this may not be the case, and that the renminbi may, in fact, be more or less in line when all currencies are taken into account.
"The trade statistics continue to provide few reasons for optimism in the short term, with the large drop in goods exports to parts of the eurozone over the past year underlining the ongoing impact of the crisis, " said Lee Hopley, an economist at manufacturers group EEF.
It is, for example, hard to believe factory output is going up when electricity consumption is going down and a trade group stopped publishing power statistics.
Within those categories, there are more than 100 sub-criteria, like degree of confinement in the work environment and income growth potential. (My colleague Jacquelyn Smith covered the last best and worst lists here.) The data come from the BLS, the Census Bureau, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and an array of private compensation surveys, trade association studies and state statistics.
It takes a perverse blindness to propose more trade in the face of these statistics.
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One reason is that they appear to be under orders to promote Hong Kong as the place to trade renminbi and these deals inflate statistics on renminbi usage there.
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These statistics underscore the fact that retail trade is stagnating, which it has been since 2003.
Israeli statistics show two-way civilian trade rising steadily in the past three years, despite the political rift.
It gathered data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and trade association studies.
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