The Second Phase Report on the Statistical Discrepancy of Merchandise Trade between the United States and China

The following report was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Jan. 25, 2013. It is reproduced in full below.

The Statistics Working Group, under the auspices of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, conducted a second reconciliation study to explain and quantify discrepancies in the official U.S.-China bilateral merchandise trade statistics. This is an update to a previous report prepared by the working group.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce