Are BMW counting deliveries to dealers, as the official statistics do, or are they counting true sales?

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The agency denied it had stopped counting stun gun seizures altogether, claiming the statistics from 2009-2010 onwards were "in the verification process".

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Trade statistics look at value, not value-added, so they include a lot of double counting as parts move across borders and back.

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